# It’s Hard To Hear God

An episode of [Elevation with Steven Furtick](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/216015753), 19 Jul 2026, 1 h 04 min.

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Have you been wondering how to hear God's voice? If disappointment, comparison, fear, or uncertainty have made it difficult to know your next step, this message from Pastor Steven Furtick will help you discover what the Bible says about recognizing, trusting, and obeying God's direction. If you’ve just made a decision for Christ, please respond HERE: http://ele.vc/tIepfr Scripture References: 1 Samuel 16, verses 1-13 – Samuel anoints David as king 1 Samuel 3, verses 19-21 – Samuel established as prophet through God's Word Colossians 3, verse 9 – Do not lie to each other Philippians 2, verse 14 – Do everything without grumbling James 4, verse 11 – Do not slander one another 1 Corinthians 6, verse 18 – Flee from sexual immorality Exodus 20, verse 12 – Honor your father and mother John 10, verse 27 – My sheep know my voice See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
[0:02] Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
[0:05] Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
[0:08] Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope
[0:10] Speaker 1: it gives your perspective to see God is moving in
[0:13] Speaker 1: your life. Enjoy the message. Come on, clap your hands,
[0:18] Speaker 1: make some noise for the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hey,
[0:22] Speaker 1: thank God for the worship team.
[0:24] Speaker 3: Thank God for our students, thank God for all these volunteers,
[0:28] Speaker 3: thank God for the group leaders, for you tex thank
[0:31] Speaker 3: God for Elevation Valentine celebrating a ten year campus anniversary.
[0:35] Speaker 1: Elevation Raleigh, celebrating us wealth year.
[0:38] Speaker 2: Anniversary, Happy Birthday, Raleigh, and celebrating you making it to
[0:44] Speaker 2: church another day looking good.
[0:48] Speaker 1: You're looking good.
[0:50] Speaker 2: Tell somebody you don't look like what you've been through.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Tell them I know you've been through some fire, but
[0:56] Speaker 2: you don't smell like smoke. You smell like deodorant, and miss.
[1:02] Speaker 1: Smell like creed. Praise the Lord. Let me look at
[1:08] Speaker 1: you remains standing for just a moment.
[1:10] Speaker 2: I do want us to take a moment and welcome
[1:12] Speaker 2: our EPAM around the world.
[1:13] Speaker 1: Would you help me do that elevation.
[1:14] Speaker 2: Valentine, wherever you're watching it, let us know in the
[1:18] Speaker 2: comments where you're watching from.
[1:20] Speaker 1: And let us know in the comments today if.
[1:23] Speaker 2: You feel like it a prayer request that we can
[1:25] Speaker 2: pray for you about we would love to do that.
[1:27] Speaker 2: We have an entire prayer team that just exists to
[1:30] Speaker 2: surround you with prayer.
[1:31] Speaker 1: I know we may not be together physically.
[1:33] Speaker 2: But just to have these moments with you in the
[1:35] Speaker 2: presence of God and to believe that there is no
[1:37] Speaker 2: distance in the spirit. I believe God brought you here
[1:40] Speaker 2: for a reason, whether you came in a car or
[1:42] Speaker 2: whether you came through a link. I believe that God
[1:45] Speaker 2: has something that he wants to do in your life.
[1:47] Speaker 2: I believe he wants to speak to you. It is
[1:49] Speaker 2: an incredible honor and privilege that I will never be
[1:51] Speaker 2: able to describe to you.
[1:53] Speaker 1: To preach God's word from this pulpit.
[1:55] Speaker 2: I value and treasure every opportunity that I get, and
[1:58] Speaker 2: I prayed for you today that God might give me
[2:00] Speaker 2: the words that he wants you to hear, cut to
[2:03] Speaker 2: the continuity of your situation, to remind you that your
[2:05] Speaker 2: God is greater than anything you will ever face.
[2:08] Speaker 1: He can bring down any giant. He can cause any
[2:11] Speaker 1: wall to tumble. He's a great God.
[2:13] Speaker 2: And in the name of Jesus, today I come into
[2:16] Speaker 2: agreement with you concerning your family, your children.
[2:19] Speaker 1: Your health, your body, your mind, and your purpose.
[2:22] Speaker 2: I pray that God would not only bless you, but
[2:24] Speaker 2: that you would be a blessing. That God would set
[2:27] Speaker 2: you back up on your feet so you can serve Him,
[2:29] Speaker 2: make a difference for him.
[2:30] Speaker 1: You were made to glorify Him. You were not.
[2:33] Speaker 2: Made to be in depression and stay in the bed.
[2:36] Speaker 2: You were not made to go through the motions of Christianity.
[2:40] Speaker 2: You were made to glorify Him. And I pray that
[2:43] Speaker 2: today God would give us a word to that end.
[2:46] Speaker 2: Clap your hands and thank God for his presence. I
[2:55] Speaker 2: don't think I have to tell you. I think you
[2:56] Speaker 2: know what time. It is.
[2:58] Speaker 1: Elevation, preaching time.
[3:03] Speaker 2: Put it in the comments, just preaching time.
[3:07] Speaker 1: Put it in the comments. Is preaching time. Say it
[3:09] Speaker 1: out loud, it's preaching time.
[3:12] Speaker 2: I'm going to be starting a brand new series today,
[3:19] Speaker 2: and the title of the series is I know that voice.
[3:26] Speaker 1: I know that voice.
[3:28] Speaker 2: I'll explain it to you as we go, but let
[3:31] Speaker 2: me read our foundational scripture for today's message, and it's
[3:35] Speaker 2: found in First Samuel chapter sixteen. I'm going to read
[3:38] Speaker 2: only through verse four and then I'll pick up the rest.
[3:40] Speaker 1: In just a moment, we stand in honor of the
[3:44] Speaker 1: Word of God in our house.
[3:46] Speaker 2: Is just something that we do to say to him. Speak, Lord,
[3:50] Speaker 2: we respect you. It's something we do to say, you're
[3:54] Speaker 2: the most important person in the room.
[3:55] Speaker 1: Lord, So speak to me. Somebody say, speak to me.
[3:58] Speaker 2: Lord. You may even want to stand right where you
[4:01] Speaker 2: are in your home or in your kitchen. If you're driving,
[4:04] Speaker 2: I understand there's limitations keep your seatbelt on, but just in.
[4:08] Speaker 1: Your heart, your posture reverence the Lord. This is his word.
[4:13] Speaker 1: On Samuel chapter sixteen, verse one.
[4:17] Speaker 2: The Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn
[4:22] Speaker 2: for Saul? Since I have rejected him as king over Israel?
[4:27] Speaker 2: Fill your horn with oil and be on your way.
[4:31] Speaker 2: I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have
[4:36] Speaker 2: chosen one of his sons to be king. But Samuel said,
[4:41] Speaker 2: how can I go? If Saul hears about it, he
[4:45] Speaker 2: will kill me. The Lord said, take a heifer. Take
[4:49] Speaker 2: a heifer with you, and say I have come to
[4:52] Speaker 2: sacrifice to the Lord. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice.
[4:57] Speaker 1: And I will show you.
[5:00] Speaker 2: I think that's the most beautiful thing that I've read
[5:02] Speaker 2: in the Bible in a long time. For the Lord
[5:04] Speaker 2: to say, I know you're confused, I know you're afraid,
[5:08] Speaker 2: but I will show you.
[5:10] Speaker 1: Somebody say that he will show me. The Lord said,
[5:13] Speaker 1: I will show you what to do.
[5:17] Speaker 2: You are too anoint for me, the one I indicate,
[5:21] Speaker 2: and I'm going to stop my reading right here. Samuel
[5:24] Speaker 2: did what the Lord said, and that's really the goal
[5:28] Speaker 2: of this sermon, the goal of this series, and the
[5:31] Speaker 2: goal of our faith. Samuel did what the Lord said.
[5:39] Speaker 2: And so for our week one installment of our new series.
[5:43] Speaker 1: I know that voice.
[5:45] Speaker 2: I want to say something to you that maybe you
[5:46] Speaker 2: felt before, but maybe you don't have the courage to
[5:48] Speaker 2: say so.
[5:49] Speaker 1: I'll say it for both of us.
[5:50] Speaker 2: This is the title of today's message.
[5:53] Speaker 1: Is hard to hear God. It's hard to hear God.
[6:01] Speaker 1: It's hard to hear God.
[6:02] Speaker 2: And if you disagree with me, you can send me
[6:06] Speaker 2: an email to Hollyfordick nineteen eighty.
[6:10] Speaker 1: At Juno dot com.
[6:13] Speaker 2: But all the honest people look at somebody and say
[6:15] Speaker 2: it's hard to hear God.
[6:18] Speaker 1: Speak. Lord, we're listening in Jesus' name. Amen, you may
[6:21] Speaker 1: be seated.
[6:24] Speaker 2: Soone set up my series with a story. My oldest son,
[6:28] Speaker 2: Elijah turns twenty one this week. For those of you
[6:33] Speaker 2: who have been in the church for a long time, that.
[6:35] Speaker 1: Makes you feel old.
[6:37] Speaker 2: You remember when we would come up there and hold
[6:40] Speaker 2: those babies in our arms. And now Elijah is about
[6:44] Speaker 2: to be twenty one, which means he's technically going to
[6:47] Speaker 2: be old enough to pay for his own car insurance.
[6:52] Speaker 1: But you think I was going to say.
[6:56] Speaker 2: Had a flashback this week as I was preparing a
[6:58] Speaker 2: series about hearing God's.
[7:00] Speaker 1: Voice, which is so important.
[7:03] Speaker 2: What could be more important to talk about? What could
[7:07] Speaker 2: we spend better time pondering than the voice of God?
[7:10] Speaker 2: But I was reminded of something that happened when Elijah
[7:13] Speaker 2: was five years old. I'd been traveling a lot during
[7:17] Speaker 2: a certain month, and I was leaving again for another trip.
[7:21] Speaker 2: Holly brought him by the office to say hi to me,
[7:23] Speaker 2: and I said, man, I'm really sorry I got to
[7:25] Speaker 2: leave again to go preach in Louisiana, but I love you.
[7:30] Speaker 2: I'd be back tomorrow. And he walked away and then
[7:33] Speaker 2: he came back and I found pulling out my shirt
[7:36] Speaker 2: and he was like, hey, I want to go to
[7:39] Speaker 2: Easy called it Weezy. I was going to New Orleans
[7:42] Speaker 2: to preach for the art conference. He said, I want
[7:44] Speaker 2: to go to Easy. I said, you do. I said,
[7:46] Speaker 2: I'm leaving in like two hours. He said, I want
[7:48] Speaker 2: to go to What does he know about TSA? You know,
[7:51] Speaker 2: I just want to go, And so I bought him
[7:54] Speaker 2: a ticket and we were going to Easy. Me and
[7:58] Speaker 2: Elijah were going to eat. Me and e were going
[8:01] Speaker 2: to Weezy together. The only thing we had to do
[8:03] Speaker 2: was get through the security line, and a very over
[8:07] Speaker 2: ambitious TSA agent came and took Elijah and said, sir,
[8:14] Speaker 2: I'm going to take your son through and then you
[8:17] Speaker 2: can come through after him.
[8:18] Speaker 1: I didn't really like that very much, but I let
[8:20] Speaker 1: him do it.
[8:22] Speaker 2: But after he took Elijah, like a minute goes by,
[8:26] Speaker 2: two minutes goes by, like it felt like forever.
[8:30] Speaker 1: It probably was only about two.
[8:31] Speaker 2: Minutes, but I started getting very irate and very frustrated
[8:35] Speaker 2: that I couldn't see my son because the man took him,
[8:37] Speaker 2: and I'm standing on the other side of the little
[8:40] Speaker 2: What do you call him security things that you go through.
[8:43] Speaker 2: And so I'm standing there waiting for the man to
[8:45] Speaker 2: come get me, and the whole line is held up,
[8:48] Speaker 2: and I'm like, hey, what's up man, My son's on
[8:50] Speaker 2: the other side. You need to let me through. And
[8:52] Speaker 2: the guy, not the same guy, but another guy comes up.
[8:54] Speaker 2: TSA guy goes, you need to calm down, and I said, no,
[9:00] Speaker 2: what I need to do is go through this security thing.
[9:03] Speaker 2: What you need to do is move out of my
[9:05] Speaker 2: way and let me be with my son.
[9:07] Speaker 1: Because I'm a pastor, see I have a shepherd's heart.
[9:13] Speaker 2: But before I'm a pastor, I'm a dad. And if
[9:16] Speaker 2: those two ever have to fight, the dad is going
[9:18] Speaker 2: to win. Okay, I've said a few words I had
[9:21] Speaker 2: to repent for at baseball fields over that very same principle.
[9:24] Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you. Well, anyway, it goes on
[9:28] Speaker 2: and on. Three TSA agents later, I'm yelling. I'm yelling
[9:33] Speaker 2: so loud that I hear one of the TSA agents
[9:35] Speaker 2: because I'm about to go Liam Neeson in this airport
[9:39] Speaker 2: and I can feel it. And as I'm yelling top
[9:42] Speaker 2: of my lungs, I hear the intercom and the airport, go,
[9:45] Speaker 2: we've got a code one, and I realize I'm a
[9:49] Speaker 2: code one, and I don't think this means a delightful
[9:52] Speaker 2: passenger who.
[9:52] Speaker 1: Needs to be upgraded to first class.
[9:55] Speaker 2: I'm like, oh God, I'm in trouble, but I'm still yelling.
[9:58] Speaker 2: I'm yelling the whole time. Well, finally the smart TSA
[10:03] Speaker 2: supervisor comes and goes, I'm sorry, we never should have
[10:05] Speaker 2: separated you from your son. Come right through, Come right through,
[10:06] Speaker 2: Come right through. And I'm like, that's still going right.
[10:08] Speaker 2: Did y'all hear what he said? And when I got
[10:10] Speaker 2: to Ali, joh, I'm and be honest with you, I
[10:12] Speaker 2: was disappointed.
[10:15] Speaker 1: Because he was calm. He was he was so calm.
[10:22] Speaker 1: In fact, he was so calm.
[10:23] Speaker 2: I'm still shaking, you know, I'm still shaking thinking I
[10:26] Speaker 2: was about that prison ministry from inside the prison and
[10:28] Speaker 2: the appreciate all from the other side of the screen.
[10:31] Speaker 2: And then and then I'm walking with him through the
[10:33] Speaker 2: airport and I said, son, you weren't scared.
[10:35] Speaker 1: He said no. I said, why were you not scared?
[10:39] Speaker 2: He said, I could hear your voice the whole time.
[10:43] Speaker 1: That's how loud I was. I could hear your voice
[10:47] Speaker 1: the whole time. Oh, to have the confidence.
[10:53] Speaker 2: Of a five year old kid going through the TSSAY
[10:57] Speaker 2: screenings of life, To have the confidence of a five
[11:02] Speaker 2: year old boy for faith in my heavenly Father, to
[11:06] Speaker 2: be able to hear his voice. But you know, and
[11:09] Speaker 2: I know, at this stage in our life, it's not
[11:11] Speaker 2: that simple anymore, is it. It's not that simple anymore, Even
[11:15] Speaker 2: though there are some Christians who would tell you, no,
[11:18] Speaker 2: I just hear from God all the time, and I
[11:21] Speaker 2: obey him. I had one brother who came through the church,
[11:24] Speaker 2: and he was honest enough to tell me.
[11:26] Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all mean when y'all say.
[11:28] Speaker 2: God told you. I've not been in the church my
[11:31] Speaker 2: whole life. Maybe that's something y'all learned when you were little.
[11:34] Speaker 2: But I don't really know what you mean when you
[11:36] Speaker 2: say God told you.
[11:37] Speaker 1: Is it out loud?
[11:39] Speaker 2: I said, I've never heard him talk out loud, except
[11:42] Speaker 2: when Holly's given me advice. That's bey as close as
[11:44] Speaker 2: I ever get. He said, is it out loud? Is
[11:47] Speaker 2: it an impression? Do you just mean like you knew
[11:49] Speaker 2: the right thing to do? Is it like your conscience?
[11:52] Speaker 2: Is it like just reading the Bible? Is it just
[11:55] Speaker 2: and as he went through all of the lists, I realized,
[11:58] Speaker 2: we're confused. I realize we're confused, and we can't hear
[12:05] Speaker 2: God because we're not in an airport, we're in anxiety.
[12:11] Speaker 2: We're not in a physical location where we can hear
[12:14] Speaker 2: the physical voice of a physical father. But we have
[12:17] Speaker 2: a heavenly Father who we have to hear in our hearts.
[12:20] Speaker 2: And the hard thing about hearing God in my heart
[12:24] Speaker 2: is he's not the only one talking there. I've got
[12:29] Speaker 2: fear talking in my heart. I've got shame talking in
[12:32] Speaker 2: my heart. I've got lust talking in my heart. I've
[12:36] Speaker 2: got greed talking in my heart.
[12:37] Speaker 1: Y'all got quiet.
[12:38] Speaker 2: You got some of the same stuff in your heart,
[12:41] Speaker 2: and it all sounds the same.
[12:44] Speaker 1: Sometimes it's hard to hear God.
[12:48] Speaker 2: It's hard to hear God when you feel separated from God,
[12:51] Speaker 2: although you understand theologically and technically that nothing will separate
[12:56] Speaker 2: us from the love of God that is in Christ, Jesus,
[12:59] Speaker 2: our Lord. You wish you could be like the five
[13:03] Speaker 2: year old who says, I knew you were coming.
[13:06] Speaker 1: I knew you were coming, you know.
[13:09] Speaker 2: To Elijah, I would beat up every tsa agent.
[13:13] Speaker 1: I would take air gun I would whatever it took
[13:16] Speaker 1: to get to him.
[13:18] Speaker 2: And though technically I believe this about God, is hard
[13:22] Speaker 2: because I'm having to hear Him through my dysfunction, so
[13:29] Speaker 2: I don't exactly trust what I think I'm hearing when
[13:32] Speaker 2: I think I'm hearing God, because I thought I heard
[13:35] Speaker 2: God one time, and I ended up in a relationship
[13:38] Speaker 2: that almost ruined my life.
[13:40] Speaker 1: So now I've got to hear God.
[13:42] Speaker 2: Not only through my present dysfunction, but my past decisions
[13:46] Speaker 2: that caused me to lose my confidence.
[13:48] Speaker 1: Because when I.
[13:49] Speaker 2: Was five, when I was ten, it was simple, Jesus
[13:52] Speaker 2: loves the little children, all the children of the world.
[13:55] Speaker 2: But now I'm living in this world where I realize
[13:57] Speaker 2: that everybody doesn't love everybody heart for me to hear
[14:00] Speaker 2: from God, because even some people who call themselves Christians
[14:04] Speaker 2: say the most hateful things and do the most hurtful things,
[14:07] Speaker 2: and live in the most hypocritical ways, And some of
[14:10] Speaker 2: the biggest biggots I ever met in my life go
[14:12] Speaker 2: in the church and quote the Bible over their bigotry.
[14:15] Speaker 2: So now it's kind of hard for me to hear
[14:16] Speaker 2: the voice of God when you're using the same book
[14:19] Speaker 2: to tell me how to be saved that I've had
[14:21] Speaker 2: people beat me over the head with and tell me
[14:24] Speaker 2: I was going to hell.
[14:25] Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to hear God. Not because
[14:29] Speaker 1: I don't believe in him.
[14:31] Speaker 2: I believe that He exists and that he rewards those
[14:34] Speaker 2: who diligently seek him. Although I'm diligently seeking him the
[14:38] Speaker 2: best I know how, I am not clearly hearing him.
[14:41] Speaker 2: I do not have the direction that you seem to have.
[14:45] Speaker 2: You say, God spoke to me. You open your Bible
[14:47] Speaker 2: and tell us what God said. I go home and
[14:50] Speaker 2: try to live that out. And I can't exactly get
[14:52] Speaker 2: what you said to overlay with what I do. If
[14:56] Speaker 2: it's not confusing, then I'm in conflict the good that
[14:59] Speaker 2: I would. Paul said in Romans chapter seven, I cannot
[15:03] Speaker 2: do the thing that I don't want to do.
[15:05] Speaker 1: I find myself doing.
[15:07] Speaker 2: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
[15:10] Speaker 2: from this body of death? And this is Paul talking, y'all.
[15:14] Speaker 2: The apostle Paul said, is hard for me to hear God.
[15:19] Speaker 2: That make you feel better, feels good to get it out.
[15:24] Speaker 2: Not always easy for me to know where the Lord
[15:27] Speaker 2: is leading me. So it was for Samuel the prophet,
[15:34] Speaker 2: the priest, and the judge.
[15:37] Speaker 1: You said, which was he all three? He's the only
[15:41] Speaker 1: person in the Bible.
[15:43] Speaker 2: Who simultaneously occupied all three of those offices other than Jesus.
[15:49] Speaker 2: I got to get that in because they'll put into
[15:51] Speaker 2: comments what about Jesus and Jesus By as far as
[15:54] Speaker 2: a human who is not the son of God, Samuel
[15:57] Speaker 2: is the only onephet, priest, a lot hinges on his
[16:02] Speaker 2: ability to hear from God. You know, he's a king maker.
[16:09] Speaker 2: He's the one who anointed Saul. Saul was the first
[16:12] Speaker 2: king Israel ever had. God didn't want them to have
[16:15] Speaker 2: a king. He wanted to be their king. Be careful
[16:19] Speaker 2: what you ask for without consulting God, you might get it.
[16:25] Speaker 2: And Saul was a very irresponsible and reluctant king. Although
[16:31] Speaker 2: his height qualified him for the job, his heart cast
[16:34] Speaker 2: him to lose it. They chose him because he was tall,
[16:39] Speaker 2: a modern day influencer.
[16:42] Speaker 1: He was very, very disobedient. I don't want to.
[16:47] Speaker 2: Say that he was a bad man. I've had disobedient
[16:51] Speaker 2: moments myself. But now, in verse one of for Samuel sixteen,
[16:58] Speaker 2: the Bible says that Samuel is mourning for Saul because
[17:02] Speaker 2: the Lord is tearing the kingdom away from Saul. Samuel
[17:07] Speaker 2: is experiencing that acute disappointment when you invested much and
[17:11] Speaker 2: it turned out.
[17:12] Speaker 1: To be little.
[17:14] Speaker 2: He prayed for Saul, he coached Saul, he put up
[17:17] Speaker 2: with Saul, He did a lot for Saul. He poured
[17:21] Speaker 2: the oil on Saul's head. And from the day that
[17:24] Speaker 2: he anointed him, until the day when Saul refused to
[17:28] Speaker 2: destroy the Amalekites and kept back the best part for
[17:30] Speaker 2: himself and claimed he had obeyed what the Lord told
[17:33] Speaker 2: him to do. Samuel thought he could pray him through.
[17:37] Speaker 2: Nothing like praying for somebody you see potential in but they.
[17:40] Speaker 1: Don't see it in themselves.
[17:43] Speaker 2: That's the pain of every parent, that's the pain of
[17:46] Speaker 2: every wife who knows you married a good man. But
[17:49] Speaker 2: he can't get out of his own head right now,
[17:52] Speaker 2: get out of his own way right now, and so
[17:55] Speaker 2: he is paying the cost emotionally of Saul's decisions.
[18:00] Speaker 1: That's when the Lord speaks.
[18:03] Speaker 2: And this was the first thing that I wanted to
[18:06] Speaker 2: tell you today in our new series.
[18:08] Speaker 1: I know that voice.
[18:10] Speaker 2: Expect God to give direction in times of disappointment. Expect
[18:17] Speaker 2: God to give direction in times of disappointment.
[18:22] Speaker 1: This is a literal disappointment.
[18:24] Speaker 2: I say that because Saul was appointed to be king,
[18:27] Speaker 2: and then he was disappointed, and it left an empty
[18:31] Speaker 2: space to be filled, an empty throne to be filled.
[18:35] Speaker 2: And into this uncertainty and agony. The Lord said to Samuel,
[18:40] Speaker 2: give me verse one again, because I love how the
[18:42] Speaker 2: Lord is still speaking to Samuel even though the problem
[18:47] Speaker 2: is not solved. The Lord is still speaking to Samuel,
[18:52] Speaker 2: even though Samuel is still mourning. God will give you
[18:56] Speaker 2: a message in your mourning. God will give you a
[19:00] Speaker 2: word in your weeping. You don't have to have a
[19:04] Speaker 2: feeling from God to receive a word from God.
[19:08] Speaker 1: And I'm going to prove that to you as we go.
[19:11] Speaker 1: Notice in verse one what the Lord told Samuel to do.
[19:14] Speaker 2: He said, how long will you mourn for Saul since
[19:17] Speaker 2: I've rejected him as king over Israel?
[19:19] Speaker 1: Question?
[19:19] Speaker 2: And then instruction, fill your horn with oil and be
[19:24] Speaker 2: on your way. Fil Everybody, say Phil, fill Phil.
[19:29] Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. Please say Phil, Say it
[19:32] Speaker 1: out loud. Phil.
[19:33] Speaker 2: This is the instruction that the Lord gave Samuel. Kind
[19:36] Speaker 2: of unusual because normally they would fill a flask with oil,
[19:40] Speaker 2: but they're actually filling the horn of an animal. They
[19:42] Speaker 2: did that for David and for Solomon, and in this
[19:46] Speaker 2: filling of the horn with oil. It is important for
[19:49] Speaker 2: us to realize that Samuel didn't have to feel it
[19:53] Speaker 2: to fill it like that, because we think we have
[19:58] Speaker 2: to feel everything what God wants us to do.
[20:01] Speaker 1: Some of us think we.
[20:02] Speaker 2: Have to feel God's presence to worship the ever present God.
[20:06] Speaker 2: Who told you that you don't have to feel anything
[20:10] Speaker 2: to throw your hands up in the air and worship God.
[20:13] Speaker 2: I don't have to feel anything to do the last
[20:16] Speaker 2: thing God told me. I don't have to feel anything
[20:18] Speaker 2: to keep the appointments.
[20:19] Speaker 1: That I put on my calendar.
[20:21] Speaker 2: God doesn't have to confirm something to me that I already.
[20:24] Speaker 1: Committed to do. Let me say that again. God doesn't
[20:27] Speaker 1: have to.
[20:28] Speaker 2: Confirm to me to do something that I've already committed
[20:31] Speaker 2: to do.
[20:32] Speaker 1: When the Lord called me to preach, he called me
[20:34] Speaker 1: to preach.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Whether I feel like preaching or not, this is my calling.
[20:39] Speaker 2: And so I begin to study on the weeks that
[20:41] Speaker 2: I don't feel like preaching because I don't have to
[20:44] Speaker 2: feel it to feel it. And the more I study,
[20:47] Speaker 2: the more I feel it. But I don't wait till
[20:50] Speaker 2: I feel it to do it, because if I waited
[20:52] Speaker 2: till I felt it to do it, I would never
[20:54] Speaker 2: feel it. So tell somebody, say feel it, feel it,
[20:57] Speaker 2: feel it. That's an instruction for somebody. For those of
[21:00] Speaker 2: you who are fighting sorrow and fighting morning, fill your
[21:04] Speaker 2: house with praise.
[21:05] Speaker 1: Turn on worship music in your.
[21:07] Speaker 2: House, even when you don't want to think about God,
[21:10] Speaker 2: and start filling the house with the sounds of praise.
[21:14] Speaker 2: Start filling the house with anthems of worship. Start filling.
[21:18] Speaker 2: That's why some of you need to say thank you Lord,
[21:20] Speaker 2: although you are going through something very difficult, because you
[21:24] Speaker 2: don't have.
[21:24] Speaker 1: To feel it to fill it. But then watch this.
[21:27] Speaker 1: Watch this. Not only does he say fill your horn.
[21:30] Speaker 2: With oil and be on your way, he says, I'm
[21:33] Speaker 2: sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem.
[21:36] Speaker 1: I have chosen one of his sons to be king.
[21:40] Speaker 2: Now, on the surface, God is giving Samuel the directions
[21:46] Speaker 2: for what he's to do next, but I want you
[21:48] Speaker 2: to notice those directions aren't complete. He says, I'm sending
[21:55] Speaker 2: you and I've chosen one of his sons to be king,
[22:00] Speaker 2: but he doesn't say which one, And so the challenge
[22:04] Speaker 2: of faith is to fill your horn with oil and
[22:08] Speaker 2: move forward before you have even found what you're looking for.
[22:13] Speaker 1: I like you to write down that outline.
[22:15] Speaker 2: Please put down fill forward found, fill forward found. And
[22:25] Speaker 2: sometimes when we're waiting on God to tell us what
[22:28] Speaker 2: to do next, we don't even do what he told
[22:30] Speaker 2: us to do last.
[22:33] Speaker 1: So it comes in sequency.
[22:35] Speaker 2: If you wait for God to show you which one
[22:38] Speaker 2: to anoint to fill your horn with oil, you will
[22:41] Speaker 2: never find the one you're supposed to find.
[22:44] Speaker 1: Because you think I'll feel it when I find it. No,
[22:47] Speaker 1: you'll find it when you feel it. Let me break
[22:50] Speaker 1: this down.
[22:51] Speaker 2: You need to become the kind of person right now
[22:53] Speaker 2: that the person you want to marry would want to marry.
[22:56] Speaker 2: You got to fill it before you find it. And
[22:59] Speaker 2: while you're at it, you need to work on paying
[23:01] Speaker 2: down some of these debts that you have so that
[23:03] Speaker 2: they don't inherit your bad decisions from the last decade,
[23:06] Speaker 2: causing fights that you will spend your entire marriage trying
[23:10] Speaker 2: to solve. You need to fill it before you find it.
[23:14] Speaker 1: And it's hard for us to hear from.
[23:15] Speaker 2: God sometimes because we want him to be like our
[23:21] Speaker 2: maps app.
[23:24] Speaker 1: You know, on the.
[23:25] Speaker 2: Maps app the greatest technological invention of my lifetime, you know,
[23:31] Speaker 2: because I have no sense of direction, and I can
[23:34] Speaker 2: tell it two things. Watch, I can tell it where
[23:37] Speaker 2: I want to go, and then I can choose the
[23:39] Speaker 2: route I want to get there.
[23:41] Speaker 1: But the difference between God and a maps app.
[23:44] Speaker 2: And I really thought you'd enjoy this little illustration because
[23:46] Speaker 2: it's going to help you see why. Sometimes you're confused
[23:49] Speaker 2: and you go, I don't know what God wants me
[23:50] Speaker 2: to do.
[23:51] Speaker 1: I don't know how he's directing me.
[23:51] Speaker 2: I don't know what he's say, I don't know he's
[23:52] Speaker 2: being Okay, I got a few ideas about that number.
[23:54] Speaker 2: In my life, I want to give God the destination
[23:59] Speaker 2: and then let him give me the directions, because that's
[24:03] Speaker 2: what I do on my maps.
[24:04] Speaker 1: At y.
[24:07] Speaker 2: I tell the maps at where I want to end
[24:10] Speaker 2: up and then I expect it to tell me how
[24:13] Speaker 2: to get there. So when it comes to this app,
[24:17] Speaker 2: I tell it the destination and it tells me the directions.
[24:23] Speaker 1: That's how we treat God.
[24:26] Speaker 2: We tell God where we want our life to be
[24:29] Speaker 2: at a certain age. We tell God what we want
[24:33] Speaker 2: our kids to turn out, like we tell God what
[24:36] Speaker 2: college we're going to.
[24:38] Speaker 1: We tell God what we want him to use us
[24:41] Speaker 1: to do. We tell God all of.
[24:43] Speaker 2: These things, these destinations, and then we say, speak, Lord,
[24:46] Speaker 2: your servant is listening. But I'm not sure he's going
[24:51] Speaker 2: to give you the details if you didn't let him
[24:55] Speaker 2: set the destination. I'm not sure that I I can
[25:00] Speaker 2: just ask God for directions for a destination that I set.
[25:05] Speaker 2: So I remember early in the church, I was talking
[25:08] Speaker 2: to a great global leader and I said, what are
[25:10] Speaker 2: some of the things that I need to do to
[25:12] Speaker 2: have the kind of ministry that you have? He said,
[25:14] Speaker 2: the first thing is to ask God, are you supposed
[25:16] Speaker 2: to have the ministry that I have? What's he saying?
[25:20] Speaker 2: It might not be your destination to do what I did.
[25:25] Speaker 2: Some of the reason that it's hard for us to
[25:27] Speaker 2: hear from God, some of the reason that we're so confused,
[25:30] Speaker 2: some of the reason that we're so stressed out, some
[25:33] Speaker 2: of the reason that we're so anxious is because we've
[25:36] Speaker 2: set the destination to something that God never destined us
[25:41] Speaker 2: to do. And the reason we can't hear God isn't
[25:46] Speaker 2: because he's quiet. It's because we're comparing, and so we're looking, Oh,
[25:52] Speaker 2: I'm teaching good today, I'm back, baby, I'm back to
[25:55] Speaker 2: help you with this craziness you feel in your life.
[25:59] Speaker 2: Because as long as you're looking at everybody else's destination,
[26:02] Speaker 2: everybody else's eta, how long it took for them to
[26:05] Speaker 2: get married, how long it took for them to get
[26:07] Speaker 2: the job, how long it took them to get the promotion.
[26:10] Speaker 2: As long as you're looking at all of these snapshots
[26:12] Speaker 2: of their life and then bringing it to God and
[26:15] Speaker 2: say God, I want to have what they had, I
[26:17] Speaker 2: want to do what they did. I'm supposed to be
[26:19] Speaker 2: like they are. As long as you're comparing, you will
[26:22] Speaker 2: feel like God is quiet, but He is not going
[26:25] Speaker 2: to give you directions for a destination that he did not.
[26:29] Speaker 1: Set for your life.
[26:31] Speaker 2: My Bible says the steps of a good man are
[26:34] Speaker 2: ordered by the Lord. That means he sets the direction.
[26:38] Speaker 2: That means he sets the time, That means he sets
[26:42] Speaker 2: the purpose. There's a lot of things I may love
[26:45] Speaker 2: to do that God did not call me to do.
[26:47] Speaker 1: And I am always going to.
[26:49] Speaker 2: Be frustrated if I try to anoint a king that
[26:53] Speaker 2: God has canceled in my life. And the question is this,
[26:57] Speaker 2: how long are you going to pity yourself over what
[27:00] Speaker 2: God didn't give you. How long are you going to
[27:05] Speaker 2: try to wear yourself out getting to somewhere that God
[27:08] Speaker 2: didn't even call you. You're not going to even have
[27:12] Speaker 2: a hotel room when you get there. God didn't call
[27:14] Speaker 2: you there.
[27:15] Speaker 1: Yea. And you hear other people talk and they make
[27:18] Speaker 1: it sound so simple. God called us to Charlotte. What
[27:21] Speaker 1: do you mean he called you to Charlotte. Really, if
[27:23] Speaker 1: you were honest about it, you just thought the schools
[27:25] Speaker 1: were good here and.
[27:27] Speaker 2: They were gonna pay you fifteen thousand dollars a year more.
[27:31] Speaker 1: But now you talk about it, God called us to Charlotte.
[27:34] Speaker 2: Well, he may have called you to Charlotte, but to
[27:37] Speaker 2: say that the biggest thing that God is going to
[27:39] Speaker 2: tell you is what city to live in is to
[27:42] Speaker 2: miss the very nature of God. Right, you could be
[27:46] Speaker 2: a crack addict in Charlotte.
[27:55] Speaker 1: One thing I love, I really love this.
[27:58] Speaker 2: I love to get inside of the cliches that we
[28:02] Speaker 2: use as Christians.
[28:03] Speaker 1: And just talk about them a little bit.
[28:06] Speaker 2: I call this Christian Eese. You can speak English and
[28:11] Speaker 2: need a translator when you come to church.
[28:13] Speaker 1: Really, the way we talk, you're.
[28:16] Speaker 2: Reading an old Testament, says the Lord said, to Samuel.
[28:19] Speaker 1: Well, he's a prophet the way that the Lord spoke
[28:21] Speaker 1: in the Old Testament.
[28:23] Speaker 2: I don't know if he spoke out loud to Samuel
[28:25] Speaker 2: or not, but the Lord spoke to Samuel. The Bible
[28:27] Speaker 2: says that Samuel was the most powerful prophet from Dan
[28:29] Speaker 2: de Bersheba. The Lord let none of his words fall
[28:31] Speaker 2: to the ground. Samuel was an amazing prophet. So much
[28:35] Speaker 2: hinged on his word. History hinged on his word. The
[28:37] Speaker 2: history of the nation hinged on him. Hearing God write
[28:42] Speaker 2: what apartment you move into is not that important. So
[28:46] Speaker 2: some of the cliches that we use in church, we'll
[28:49] Speaker 2: be like, I'm just dealing with this red sea right now,
[28:51] Speaker 2: what's the red sea?
[28:52] Speaker 1: My rent's going up? I get it. I know that's
[28:57] Speaker 1: a challenge. It's not a red see, it's a rent increase.
[29:03] Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about the difference rent increase, red sea.
[29:11] Speaker 1: Okay, one you move, the other you die. They're not
[29:16] Speaker 1: the same.
[29:18] Speaker 2: The stakes are not always as high as the enemy
[29:21] Speaker 2: would have you to believe. It doesn't always matter when
[29:25] Speaker 2: the Lord speaks to you. The Lord did not tell
[29:27] Speaker 2: me to wear matching denham today. I just did the
[29:30] Speaker 2: best that I could to put it together. Did I
[29:32] Speaker 2: do all right? Only God can judge me. Who cares
[29:36] Speaker 2: what you think? I did not pray? This is this
[29:40] Speaker 2: is so, this is so important for you to get.
[29:43] Speaker 2: Some of the reason is hard for us to hear
[29:45] Speaker 2: from God is that we want him to tell us
[29:48] Speaker 2: things about situations that he just wants us to use
[29:52] Speaker 2: wisdom for. And so we're singing this song and you
[29:57] Speaker 2: thanks all week.
[29:58] Speaker 1: I love this song. I didn't write this song.
[30:00] Speaker 2: I'm jealous that I didn't write this song, but we
[30:02] Speaker 2: sang it in church today.
[30:03] Speaker 1: We're about to see revival like we've.
[30:06] Speaker 2: Never known, like something out the Bible, the impossible. I
[30:12] Speaker 2: think the room is ready for a miracle. I think
[30:16] Speaker 2: this room is ready for a coma. Right about now,
[30:18] Speaker 2: y'all ain't saying nothing. Come on, I think the room
[30:21] Speaker 2: is ready.
[30:22] Speaker 1: I don't know about.
[30:23] Speaker 2: University City, but I think, come on, young people.
[30:26] Speaker 1: Stand up real quick.
[30:28] Speaker 2: Sing the song we're about to see.
[30:31] Speaker 1: Like we never know.
[30:38] Speaker 2: Oh, you're about to start something, singing like y'all were
[30:42] Speaker 2: singing at Friday night, something out the Bible, the impossible.
[30:49] Speaker 1: I think the room is Come.
[30:51] Speaker 2: On, Church, help these young people praise the Lord what
[30:54] Speaker 2: a smile on your bed. We're about to see a revival.
[31:04] Speaker 1: I love that, all right. How many want to see.
[31:10] Speaker 2: God do something like it's something out.
[31:12] Speaker 1: The Bible in your life? Come on, come on, come on, everybody,
[31:16] Speaker 1: get in on this. Come on, I want to How many.
[31:22] Speaker 2: Want to see God raise something back to life like
[31:25] Speaker 2: He raised Lazarus, like something out the Bible. Come on,
[31:30] Speaker 2: touch your neighbors say, like something out the Bible, Like
[31:33] Speaker 2: something out the Bible, like.
[31:35] Speaker 1: A red sea splitting, like a mountain moving. I want to.
[31:39] Speaker 2: See dry bones come back to life. I want to
[31:42] Speaker 2: see the dead raised. I want to see the sick heal.
[31:45] Speaker 2: I want to see it like it's something out the Bible.
[31:48] Speaker 2: But the question becomes this, if you want to see
[31:51] Speaker 2: something out the Bible, are you willing to do something
[31:54] Speaker 2: in the Bible?
[32:00] Speaker 1: Ah ah, I.
[32:03] Speaker 2: Gotta ask you this because it's hard to hear a
[32:08] Speaker 2: God speaking specifically who you will not obey generally.
[32:15] Speaker 1: So I want to.
[32:16] Speaker 2: See I want to see something out the Bible.
[32:21] Speaker 1: But how can I see something.
[32:23] Speaker 2: Out the Bible if I won't do something in the Bible.
[32:30] Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't need to hear God's voice, I just
[32:32] Speaker 2: need a verse because sometimes the verse is his voice
[32:38] Speaker 2: in the beginning was a word, and the word was
[32:39] Speaker 2: with God, and the word was God.
[32:42] Speaker 1: So when I have God's word, I have God's voice.
[32:45] Speaker 2: And I believe that the reason that Samuel was abel
[32:49] Speaker 2: to hear the voice of God. Yeah, he knew that
[32:54] Speaker 2: voice because he had known that voice since he was
[32:59] Speaker 2: twelve years oh when he was ministering in the temple
[33:05] Speaker 2: under Eli, whose vision was them.
[33:07] Speaker 1: He couldn't see and the temple was corrupt.
[33:09] Speaker 2: But the Lord called him Samuel, and he thought it
[33:12] Speaker 2: was Eli, but it was God. And he called him
[33:15] Speaker 2: again Samuel, and he thought it was Eli, but it
[33:17] Speaker 2: was God. And he called him a third time, and
[33:20] Speaker 2: Eli said, that's not me, that's God.
[33:23] Speaker 1: Next time he speaks, say speak, Lord, your servant is listening.
[33:27] Speaker 2: For Samuel three ten, six decades earlier than the passage
[33:30] Speaker 2: I read you. The Lord came and stood there, calling,
[33:33] Speaker 2: as at other times Samuel Samuel. Then Samuel said, speak
[33:36] Speaker 2: for your servant is listening. Go to verse nineteen.
[33:39] Speaker 1: Please.
[33:40] Speaker 2: The Bible says the Lord was with Samuel as he
[33:42] Speaker 2: grew up, and he let none of Samuel's words fall
[33:45] Speaker 2: to the ground.
[33:46] Speaker 1: And from Dan Tabersheba. Next verse, please.
[33:49] Speaker 2: All Israel recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet
[33:52] Speaker 2: of the Lord.
[33:53] Speaker 1: Verse twenty one.
[33:54] Speaker 2: The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he
[33:57] Speaker 2: revealed himself to Samuel through his word.
[34:02] Speaker 1: Through his word, you have his word.
[34:08] Speaker 2: And so before we go getting confused about the things
[34:12] Speaker 2: that God isn't speaking to us, let's check on the
[34:15] Speaker 2: things that he's already spoken. Because the more I'm flowing
[34:19] Speaker 2: in what He's spoken, the more I can hear what
[34:22] Speaker 2: he speaks. Clap your hands and praise the Lord. Come on,
[34:27] Speaker 2: clap your hands and praise the Lord. You like that
[34:34] Speaker 2: something out the Bible, Daniel in the lions, Then well
[34:37] Speaker 2: you're not going to see something out the Bible if
[34:39] Speaker 2: you don't do something in the Bible. What do you
[34:43] Speaker 2: mean something in the Bible? I brought a list. You
[34:46] Speaker 2: want to hear my list?
[34:47] Speaker 1: Let's go through it real quick. Just a few things.
[34:51] Speaker 2: How many want to see God do something out the
[34:53] Speaker 2: Bible in your life?
[34:54] Speaker 1: I mean a miracle?
[34:54] Speaker 2: Brak okay, okay, all right, now I got something in
[34:57] Speaker 2: the Bible, so you can see something out the Bible.
[34:58] Speaker 2: Colossians three nine. Do not lie to each other. That's
[35:04] Speaker 2: in the Bible. That's what the Lord wants you to do.
[35:07] Speaker 2: I'll know what the Lord wants you to do.
[35:09] Speaker 1: I know what the.
[35:09] Speaker 2: Lord wants you to do. He wants you to do
[35:11] Speaker 2: do not lie to each other. That means you have
[35:14] Speaker 2: to maybe delete your whole social media account because maybe
[35:17] Speaker 2: the whole.
[35:18] Speaker 1: Thing is a lie. Maybe the whole thing is not
[35:21] Speaker 1: a you. Maybe you are like something out the Bible.
[35:28] Speaker 2: How about some in the Bible? Can we do some
[35:30] Speaker 2: in the Bible? Do not lie to each other? Oh,
[35:34] Speaker 2: I'm just getting started.
[35:35] Speaker 1: With this list.
[35:37] Speaker 2: They want something out the Bible. Give them Philippians to fourteen.
[35:41] Speaker 2: Do everything without grumbling.
[35:49] Speaker 1: Or arguing. Now now I want something out the Bible.
[35:55] Speaker 2: I want to do something in the Bible because.
[35:58] Speaker 1: I want God to ope in the grave.
[36:01] Speaker 2: And God is like, before we start dealing with graves,
[36:03] Speaker 2: can we deal with grumbling? Because your grumbling is the grave.
[36:07] Speaker 2: For every good thing I'm trying to do in your life,
[36:09] Speaker 2: you bury it in your complaining. You want see some
[36:12] Speaker 2: out of the Bible. I wants you to do something
[36:13] Speaker 2: in the Bible. Next verse, let's keep it going. James
[36:19] Speaker 2: wanted you to know this is in the Bible. Now.
[36:21] Speaker 2: He didn't know this was going in the Bible when
[36:22] Speaker 2: he wrote it. He was just writing out of faithfulness,
[36:24] Speaker 2: and now it's in the Bible. James one, chapter four,
[36:26] Speaker 2: verse eleven says, brothers and sisters do not slander one another.
[36:32] Speaker 1: That's in the Bible. That's in the Bible. I can't
[36:36] Speaker 1: figure out why y'all aren't.
[36:38] Speaker 2: Shouting over that, because when I was saying stuff out
[36:42] Speaker 2: the Bible, it made us feel excited. But when I'm
[36:47] Speaker 2: saying something in the Bible, we get quiet. And maybe
[36:51] Speaker 2: God's not quiet. Maybe I'm just not doing what's in
[36:55] Speaker 2: the Bible.
[37:00] Speaker 1: You said you were glad I was back.
[37:03] Speaker 2: Next verse touch somebody say it's in the Bible.
[37:08] Speaker 1: Flee from sexual immorality.
[37:10] Speaker 2: Put that on the Uthex twenty twenty seventy shirt.
[37:14] Speaker 1: Flee sexual immorality. That's in the Bible.
[37:19] Speaker 2: I love you enough to tell you you're not gonna be
[37:21] Speaker 2: able to hear God if you're so tangled up in
[37:23] Speaker 2: intimacy that isn't really intimacy, that's just corrupting your ability
[37:27] Speaker 2: to think you're not gonna really be able to hear
[37:29] Speaker 2: the great, imprecious promises of God, if your mind.
[37:32] Speaker 1: Is consumed with porn, you got to you gotta run from.
[37:34] Speaker 2: Some stuff in order to receive some stuff.
[37:37] Speaker 4: And it's not just true for the youth. It's in
[37:41] Speaker 4: the Bible. Touch somebody say it's in the Bible. It's
[37:45] Speaker 4: in the Bible. It's in the b I, B L E.
[37:50] Speaker 1: Bible. I think I got one more. I don't remember.
[37:55] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, put this for the kids. Honor your father
[37:58] Speaker 1: and mother.
[38:00] Speaker 2: Come on, parents, you ought to tie this week with
[38:04] Speaker 2: this sermon.
[38:10] Speaker 1: About to see revival, life, heaven. Honor and my mama.
[38:16] Speaker 1: When I get back home, the leading all my snapchat
[38:20] Speaker 1: from my phone, and now I've got a fire.
[38:23] Speaker 2: And this in a Bible, you can change. You can
[38:26] Speaker 2: be transformed through the renewing of your mind. Jimmy verse
[38:34] Speaker 2: four again, first Samuel sixteen four. Here's the goal. Samuel
[38:39] Speaker 2: did what the Lord said. Oh, it's wonderful to hear.
[38:44] Speaker 2: It's wonderful to be in tune. It's wonderful to be educated.
[38:48] Speaker 2: It's wonderful to have information. It's wonderful to quote scripture.
[38:51] Speaker 2: But I would rather you walk in one than quote
[38:54] Speaker 2: a hundred. Now I'm going to encourage you a little
[39:02] Speaker 2: bit more uplifting message that the Lord gave me today
[39:08] Speaker 2: called I.
[39:08] Speaker 1: Know that voice. By the way, I got to put
[39:13] Speaker 1: this in there.
[39:15] Speaker 2: If you hear me condemning you right now, that's not
[39:19] Speaker 2: God's voice. Just because I'm being loud doesn't mean I
[39:24] Speaker 2: don't love you.
[39:26] Speaker 1: Doesn't mean God doesn't love you.
[39:29] Speaker 2: And sometimes we confuse correction, which is a sign of love,
[39:35] Speaker 2: with condemnation, which is the opposite of love. You can
[39:44] Speaker 2: drive your car wherever you want tonight at two am.
[39:47] Speaker 1: I don't love you like that, Graham Fredick.
[39:50] Speaker 2: We got to have some boundaries around two am because
[39:53] Speaker 2: I love him so much.
[39:55] Speaker 1: I love him so much. Yeah, but so much to share.
[40:02] Speaker 1: Will you come back to next week too?
[40:04] Speaker 2: I'm not done, but will you come back to next
[40:05] Speaker 2: week too? You know, one of the things that I
[40:08] Speaker 2: associate with hearing from God is frequency. Frequency. That's an
[40:12] Speaker 2: interesting word because it has a double meaning. One we
[40:14] Speaker 2: hear in frequency. Sound has a frequency, but frequency also.
[40:19] Speaker 1: Refers to how many times you do it.
[40:22] Speaker 2: And did you notice that the Lord continued to reveal
[40:25] Speaker 2: himself to Samuel. But what encouraged me that I really
[40:28] Speaker 2: don't want you to miss here is that even though
[40:33] Speaker 2: Samuel had been doing it for decades, he still found
[40:37] Speaker 2: it hard to hear God.
[40:39] Speaker 1: Good watch.
[40:39] Speaker 2: The Lord said to Samuel, how long will you mourn foresaw?
[40:42] Speaker 2: Since I've rejected him as king o is Israel. By
[40:44] Speaker 2: the way, I could preach another message sometime about how
[40:47] Speaker 2: sometimes God says, your grieving period is over, even though
[40:52] Speaker 2: your grief is still real, and you have got to
[40:55] Speaker 2: move forward filled until you find what's next. That's another
[41:00] Speaker 2: message for another day, filled forward found. But see, Samuel
[41:06] Speaker 2: has to launch out with the knowledge that he has
[41:08] Speaker 2: to pass through Saul's hometown to get to Bethlehem, where
[41:12] Speaker 2: God is sending him. So the word God is giving
[41:14] Speaker 2: him is taking him through a difficult place. So he's
[41:17] Speaker 2: got to go back to his school and live it out.
[41:20] Speaker 2: He's got to go back to a loveless marriage and
[41:22] Speaker 2: love his wife as Christ loves the truth. He's got
[41:24] Speaker 2: to go back to a job where there aren't many Christians.
[41:26] Speaker 2: He's got to go back to a job where the
[41:28] Speaker 2: boss doesn't even appreciate or actually the boss is the problem.
[41:32] Speaker 1: He's got to go.
[41:32] Speaker 2: Back to something in this case that could cost him
[41:35] Speaker 2: his life. So in verse two it says, but Samuel said,
[41:39] Speaker 2: how can I, which we're all familiar with, How can
[41:43] Speaker 2: I he heard God? He recognized and discerned this is
[41:45] Speaker 2: God because he knows that voice. But what that voice
[41:48] Speaker 2: is saying is very hard. And so his question is how,
[41:53] Speaker 2: And I think that's where most of us are. How
[41:58] Speaker 2: How can I go? If so all hears about it,
[42:01] Speaker 2: he will kill me. Now we all have a how,
[42:03] Speaker 2: and we all have an if.
[42:06] Speaker 1: How do I do that? If this happens?
[42:09] Speaker 2: That happens, and the Lord responds verse three, So beautiful,
[42:12] Speaker 2: the Lord said, I got this cover. Get your heifer.
[42:16] Speaker 2: It's your heifer. Tell somebody get your heifer. I don't
[42:19] Speaker 2: know what that means. I just wanted to hear you
[42:21] Speaker 2: say heifer too. If I got to say it, we
[42:23] Speaker 2: all got to say it.
[42:24] Speaker 1: Get your heifer, take your heffer with you. Of course,
[42:26] Speaker 1: this is very symbolic.
[42:28] Speaker 2: He's a priest, a prophet, and a judge, so he's
[42:32] Speaker 2: going to make a sacrifice when he goes by the way.
[42:35] Speaker 2: I used to think that this was a lie when
[42:37] Speaker 2: the Lord told him take a heifer and tell him
[42:39] Speaker 2: I've come to sacrifice to the Lord. But it's not
[42:43] Speaker 2: a lie because every time there is an anointing.
[42:45] Speaker 1: There's a sacrifice, and.
[42:49] Speaker 2: What the Lord is giving him here is a strategy
[42:52] Speaker 2: for a difficult act of obedience. How many have a
[42:55] Speaker 2: difficult act of obedience hanging over your head right now?
[42:58] Speaker 2: How many have something in your life that is going
[42:59] Speaker 2: to be hard to obey God about?
[43:01] Speaker 1: Raise your hand?
[43:01] Speaker 2: A difficult act of obedience God has called you to.
[43:05] Speaker 2: I'm going to slow down and ask you again, because
[43:07] Speaker 2: I just read do not lie. How many have a
[43:10] Speaker 2: difficult act of obedience ahead of you? It could be anything.
[43:15] Speaker 2: It could be staying sober. It could be staying on
[43:18] Speaker 2: this diet because you're trying to take care of your body.
[43:20] Speaker 2: It could be being more loving. It could be refusing
[43:23] Speaker 2: to consume certain things that you know are actually consuming you.
[43:26] Speaker 2: A difficult act of obedience. Sometimes it's not hard to
[43:32] Speaker 2: hear God. Sometimes it's hard to know how you're going
[43:35] Speaker 2: to do what he said. Lors said, take a heifer,
[43:43] Speaker 2: and we don't have to have heifers anymore.
[43:44] Speaker 1: We have Jesus.
[43:46] Speaker 2: Praise the Lord somebody. We don't have to have a
[43:49] Speaker 2: heifer anymore.
[43:50] Speaker 1: We have the Holy Spirit. We have Jesus, the once
[43:52] Speaker 1: and for all sacrifice. But now watch this this crazy.
[43:57] Speaker 2: He's been doing this for six decades, Prophesy. Not only
[44:01] Speaker 2: has he been hearing from God, he's been speaking for God.
[44:03] Speaker 1: He should know how to do this by now.
[44:05] Speaker 2: They said, how can I go, Saul, here's somebody coming,
[44:07] Speaker 2: should take a heffer and bite Jesse to the sacrifice,
[44:11] Speaker 2: and I I will show you what to do. But
[44:16] Speaker 2: I'm not going to show you what to do there.
[44:20] Speaker 1: Here. I'm gonna show you what to do today. I'm
[44:27] Speaker 1: gonna show you what to do this moment.
[44:30] Speaker 2: I have a weird time when I'm coming back from
[44:32] Speaker 2: time off from preaching, where I start thinking about, oh man, I've.
[44:35] Speaker 1: Got to get ready. I'm not I.
[44:40] Speaker 2: Don't even know if I remember how to do this,
[44:41] Speaker 2: you know, And then the enemy start loading me with
[44:44] Speaker 2: all the preaching that I've got to do over the
[44:45] Speaker 2: rest of the year, and I have to come back
[44:48] Speaker 2: to You don't have a preesure rest of the year.
[44:49] Speaker 2: You just have preach today.
[44:52] Speaker 1: You just have to forgive today. You just have to
[44:55] Speaker 1: love today.
[44:59] Speaker 2: You just have to go the meeting today.
[45:02] Speaker 1: Today. You just have to breathe today. You have to
[45:06] Speaker 1: get on the peloton today. You gotta read the Bible today.
[45:10] Speaker 2: You just got to not freak out and not lose
[45:11] Speaker 2: your mind, not go crazy. Today, the Lord said, I
[45:15] Speaker 2: will show you.
[45:16] Speaker 1: What to do.
[45:17] Speaker 2: You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.
[45:20] Speaker 2: Samuel did what the Lord said, but now I want
[45:21] Speaker 2: to read the rest to you. When he arrived at
[45:24] Speaker 2: Bethlehem versus four party, please, the elders of the town
[45:27] Speaker 2: trembled when they met him. They asked, do you come
[45:29] Speaker 2: in peace? That's a loaded question. They mean, is their trouble?
[45:33] Speaker 2: Because the prophet could declare a war, prophet could do
[45:36] Speaker 2: almost anything.
[45:37] Speaker 1: I mean, Samuel was the man, But.
[45:39] Speaker 2: I think it's kind of got a double meaning to it,
[45:40] Speaker 2: don't you. He has a problem, but he came in
[45:43] Speaker 2: peace because he heard from God. I think that's the
[45:47] Speaker 2: most amazing thing in life, when you have a problem
[45:50] Speaker 2: and peace. I think that's the most amazing proof of
[45:56] Speaker 2: God's presence. Is that I am dealing with stuff you
[46:00] Speaker 2: wouldn't believe right now, and I'm concerned about.
[46:03] Speaker 1: It, and I am losing some sleep. But something down
[46:07] Speaker 1: in me knows that voice. I can hear his voice
[46:11] Speaker 1: on the other side of that tsa line. I know
[46:14] Speaker 1: somehow he's going to get me. I don't know how,
[46:18] Speaker 1: but I know who. I know. Sama did what the
[46:26] Speaker 1: Lord said. When he arrived. The elder said, do you
[46:27] Speaker 1: come in peace?
[46:28] Speaker 2: And Samuel replied, yes, in peace, I have come to
[46:31] Speaker 2: sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come to the
[46:34] Speaker 2: sacrifice with me. And then he consecrated Jesse and his
[46:37] Speaker 2: sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
[46:39] Speaker 1: Now reset, because I.
[46:41] Speaker 2: Need your full attention for this last thing I want
[46:43] Speaker 2: to give you on this sermon today. I need you
[46:46] Speaker 2: to not be checked out. I need you to not
[46:47] Speaker 2: be thinking. Man, he's been talking a long time. If
[46:50] Speaker 2: God is still talking, don't you want to still be listening?
[46:52] Speaker 2: So listen close to what I'm about to say when
[46:55] Speaker 2: they arrived. I think this is the pivotal skill when
[46:58] Speaker 2: it comes to hearing from God. Because in this series,
[47:02] Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about how to know
[47:04] Speaker 2: the difference between your crazy impressions in God's voice. I
[47:08] Speaker 2: want to talk to you about how to discern the
[47:10] Speaker 2: difference between just a burst of motivation or a surge
[47:14] Speaker 2: of ambition and a mission.
[47:15] Speaker 1: That comes from the Holy Spirit.
[47:17] Speaker 2: I want us to see together how to not just
[47:20] Speaker 2: wait for something out the Bible, but to do what
[47:23] Speaker 2: is in the Bible, so we can see something out
[47:26] Speaker 2: of the Bible happen in our lives. But I need
[47:28] Speaker 2: you to understand what verse six says. When they arrived,
[47:33] Speaker 2: Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely, the Lord's anointed stands
[47:40] Speaker 2: here before the Lord.
[47:42] Speaker 1: But the Lord said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance.
[47:47] Speaker 2: Or his height, for I have rejected him.
[47:51] Speaker 1: Listen close to me. The Lord does not look.
[47:54] Speaker 2: At the things people look at. People look at the
[47:58] Speaker 2: outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart. So I
[48:04] Speaker 2: want to preach a little about verse six. It says
[48:07] Speaker 2: Samuel saw Eliab and thought, surely, how many times have
[48:13] Speaker 2: you got in trouble in your life because you saw
[48:17] Speaker 2: and thought surely? You saw and thought surely, and you
[48:23] Speaker 2: held so hard to what you thought because of what
[48:26] Speaker 2: you saw that God couldn't show you what he wanted
[48:30] Speaker 2: because you were so sure about what you thought. The
[48:34] Speaker 2: reason he thought Eliab was the one is that Eliab
[48:38] Speaker 2: was tall. Guess who else was tall, Saul. So the
[48:43] Speaker 2: first thing Samuel wanted to do was pour the oil
[48:46] Speaker 2: on somebody who reminded him of the past. But God said,
[48:49] Speaker 2: I'm done with the past. I'm doing a new thing
[48:52] Speaker 2: in your life. I'm doing a new thing in this generation.
[48:55] Speaker 2: I'm doing a new thing in this church. I'm doing
[48:58] Speaker 2: a new thing in your faith.
[49:04] Speaker 1: I can't hear God's voice.
[49:06] Speaker 2: Sometimes because I can't do what God says if I
[49:09] Speaker 2: don't see as God sees.
[49:12] Speaker 1: So the Lord says, the first.
[49:13] Speaker 2: Thing I've got to get you to do is stop
[49:17] Speaker 2: thinking that everything you see is true, thinking that everything
[49:21] Speaker 2: you feel is true.
[49:23] Speaker 1: Y'all. They send me a clip the other day.
[49:25] Speaker 2: One of my friends send me a clip of one
[49:27] Speaker 2: of my sermons and said, I got this the other day.
[49:30] Speaker 2: It was kind of surprising. Show real quick. They send
[49:32] Speaker 2: me on YouTube is a fifty second clip. I want
[49:34] Speaker 2: to show you this. It's called how to make a
[49:37] Speaker 2: man miss You Deeply. Sometimes the hardest thing isn't about
[49:40] Speaker 2: making someone love you. It's about making them feel your
[49:43] Speaker 2: absence to miss you deeply, not just in passing, but
[49:48] Speaker 2: in that place where their heart aches and their mind
[49:51] Speaker 2: keeps coming back to you. It's not about chasing or pleading.
[49:55] Speaker 2: It's about becoming so powerful in who you are that
[49:59] Speaker 2: you lingers even when you're gone. Today I want to
[50:04] Speaker 2: show you how to unlock that power, the kind that
[50:07] Speaker 2: doesn't beg for attention, but commands it naturally. This is
[50:12] Speaker 2: about mastering the art of being unforgettable, of creating a
[50:16] Speaker 2: space in his life that only you can fill. Are
[50:19] Speaker 2: you ready because what you're about to learn will change
[50:23] Speaker 2: the way you.
[50:24] Speaker 5: Love and the way he remembers you. Let's dive in.
[50:32] Speaker 5: Let's dive in. That's crazy.
[50:37] Speaker 2: It had my image, it had my name, It even
[50:44] Speaker 2: kind of had my voice, but it didn't have my values.
[50:53] Speaker 2: That's how you can tell. Because you listen to me preach.
[50:58] Speaker 1: You know my values.
[51:00] Speaker 2: And no AI bought in the world, trained on a
[51:03] Speaker 2: manual about seduction can make you believe that's me because
[51:07] Speaker 2: you know that boy, when you know God's boy, when
[51:13] Speaker 2: you know what God values. No devil in hell, no
[51:19] Speaker 2: freight room, no toxic person can't talk you out of
[51:23] Speaker 2: what God said without surfish, no lie. I think the
[51:36] Speaker 2: Lord is saying over some stuff.
[51:38] Speaker 1: In your life that's not me. Touch somebody say that's
[51:42] Speaker 1: not God.
[51:44] Speaker 2: I don't care if it sounds spiritual, if it does
[51:47] Speaker 2: not align with his word, it is not God. I
[51:50] Speaker 2: don't care what culture calls it.
[51:53] Speaker 1: If God calls his sin, run from it and be
[51:56] Speaker 1: ye sextified.
[52:02] Speaker 2: And if God says He's for you, I don't care
[52:04] Speaker 2: if the whole world is against you. What he says
[52:07] Speaker 2: is the final Say phil your horn with oil and
[52:12] Speaker 2: be on your way.
[52:16] Speaker 1: Even if you feel like you don't know what to
[52:18] Speaker 1: do next.
[52:20] Speaker 2: It's hard to hear God speaking about your future when
[52:25] Speaker 2: you're still talking to him about your past.
[52:29] Speaker 1: It's hard for you to hear God talk about the
[52:32] Speaker 1: heart when you keep focusing on the height.
[52:40] Speaker 2: And if you want to hear God's voice, you got
[52:42] Speaker 2: to have God's values so you'll know what to do,
[52:49] Speaker 2: so you'll know how God wants you to treat somebody.
[52:53] Speaker 1: So you'll know how he wants you.
[52:54] Speaker 2: To live, whether you're in Miami or Montana, so that
[52:57] Speaker 2: you'll know what He's saying about your life, so that
[53:00] Speaker 2: you can fill your horn, move forward with God.
[53:07] Speaker 1: And find his purpose. Because watch this.
[53:12] Speaker 2: The proof of Samuel's ministry is not that he never
[53:15] Speaker 2: got it wrong. You saw him get it wrong twice
[53:20] Speaker 2: in his seventies. Anybody in their seventies in here tell
[53:26] Speaker 2: these young people. Listening to God is a life long skill,
[53:35] Speaker 2: and doing what the Lord said requires that you get
[53:39] Speaker 2: the grace for this season of your life, because the
[53:43] Speaker 2: Bible says in verse seven this Maybe you won't care
[53:48] Speaker 2: about this, but this blew my mind, y'all. I called
[53:51] Speaker 2: three preachers and said, have you ever seen this before
[53:54] Speaker 2: in the Bible? And they all said no. And if
[53:56] Speaker 2: you don't preach it this Sunday, I'm stealing it. There
[54:00] Speaker 2: is a progression that happens. In verse six, Samuel thought,
[54:06] Speaker 2: because he saw, surely, I want you to I want
[54:10] Speaker 2: you to get that this week and kind of work
[54:11] Speaker 2: it through.
[54:12] Speaker 1: I saw.
[54:13] Speaker 2: I thought, surely. I was so certain about it. I
[54:16] Speaker 2: was so committed to the thing that wasn't God. I
[54:20] Speaker 2: was so like I hear things and they sound like God.
[54:23] Speaker 2: You know, certain things sound like God, but just because
[54:26] Speaker 2: they sound good doesn't.
[54:27] Speaker 1: Mean they're from God.
[54:30] Speaker 2: I've heard sermons before where people say God has to
[54:33] Speaker 2: take you into isolation to give you revelation.
[54:36] Speaker 1: That rhymes, but that's not right.
[54:40] Speaker 2: Occasionally God will give you revelation in isolation. But our
[54:43] Speaker 2: God is a God of community, and God doesn't want
[54:47] Speaker 2: you in isolation.
[54:48] Speaker 1: The enemy does. God speaks through peopure.
[54:51] Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, And it sounds like God,
[54:54] Speaker 2: like that video sounded like me kind of.
[54:57] Speaker 1: That's not his values.
[54:58] Speaker 2: And when you know his values, you will know his voice.
[55:05] Speaker 2: In verse six, he said, Samuel saw and thought surely,
[55:11] Speaker 2: But the Lord said to Samuel, you're wrong.
[55:15] Speaker 1: You got the wrong one.
[55:18] Speaker 2: And God doesn't measure faith by your confidence. He measures
[55:22] Speaker 2: faith by your correct ability. Oh wow, wow. Is not
[55:29] Speaker 2: in never getting it wrong that God calls you faithful.
[55:33] Speaker 2: It's that when the Lord spoke and interrupted what Samuel
[55:36] Speaker 2: thought was supposed to happen.
[55:38] Speaker 1: This is crazy.
[55:39] Speaker 2: In verse seven, the Lord said to Samuel, he's.
[55:43] Speaker 1: Not the one who said, come on, talk to me.
[55:46] Speaker 2: Who said, okay, The Lord corrected Samuel's values. He said,
[55:51] Speaker 2: I'm not looking at what you're looking at. Now look
[55:53] Speaker 2: at verse eight. Then Jesse called a benedab that was
[55:55] Speaker 2: his second son, the second one that wasn't right. He
[55:58] Speaker 2: called a Benaedabh and had him pass in.
[56:00] Speaker 1: Front of Samuel. But Samuel said.
[56:03] Speaker 2: The Lord has not chosen this one either. Who said,
[56:07] Speaker 2: read it again, Samuel. Because he's heard God's values.
[56:16] Speaker 1: Now he knows God's voice.
[56:19] Speaker 2: And God doesn't have to tell him over and over
[56:21] Speaker 2: and over again. He has internalized the word of God
[56:27] Speaker 2: until the point where seven sons of Jesse passed before Samuel,
[56:34] Speaker 2: and he kept saying, not that one looks good, not
[56:36] Speaker 2: that one sounds good, not that one seems to be
[56:39] Speaker 2: a king, not that one.
[56:40] Speaker 1: No, no, no, noe is that all you have?
[56:43] Speaker 2: And Jesse said, there's still the youngest. He is tending
[56:47] Speaker 2: the sheep. And Samuel said, sin for him. We will
[56:49] Speaker 2: not sit down until he arrived. So he sent for
[56:52] Speaker 2: him and had him brought in. He was glowing with
[56:55] Speaker 2: help and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then
[57:00] Speaker 2: the Lord said, rise and annoying him, this is the one.
[57:04] Speaker 2: So Samuel took the horn of oil, the one that
[57:08] Speaker 2: he filled back home, for the one that he found,
[57:12] Speaker 2: even after he got it wrong to love this sermon.
[57:15] Speaker 1: Today he took the oil that he.
[57:17] Speaker 2: Filled, not knowing, and anointed him in the presence of
[57:20] Speaker 2: all of his brothers. And from that day on the
[57:24] Speaker 2: spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David, and Samuel
[57:29] Speaker 2: went to Rama. And all I'm trying to say to
[57:32] Speaker 2: you today is when you know God's voice, when you
[57:36] Speaker 2: know God's heart, when you know your God. When Jesus said,
[57:42] Speaker 2: my sheep know my voice, and they follow me.
[57:47] Speaker 1: And I know his hard.
[57:52] Speaker 2: I know his heart for you to hear for what
[57:55] Speaker 2: God wants you to do about this situation.
[58:00] Speaker 1: But I want to remind you of something.
[58:03] Speaker 2: You've heard his voice before, You've missed his voice before,
[58:12] Speaker 2: and he didn't stop speaking, and he's still speaking. Even
[58:19] Speaker 2: though you can't always feel him, you can be filled
[58:24] Speaker 2: with him, even though you didn't get it right the
[58:28] Speaker 2: first time. Even though your morning there is a message.
[58:35] Speaker 2: When Elijah went to college, he came home after three
[58:38] Speaker 2: weeks and he said, it's been so hard for me
[58:41] Speaker 2: to get on track without you.
[58:43] Speaker 1: Dad. I said, dude, I miss you too.
[58:47] Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy because sometimes we would drive each
[58:49] Speaker 2: other crazy in the house. But there were days where
[58:52] Speaker 2: I'll be like, man, I love for Elijah to be
[58:54] Speaker 2: here driving me crazy.
[58:56] Speaker 1: You know what I mean? He said. The hard part
[58:59] Speaker 1: is you have always been.
[59:00] Speaker 2: The voice in my head giving me wisdom. And I
[59:05] Speaker 2: know I can call you, and I know I can
[59:06] Speaker 2: text you, but it's just not the same because when
[59:08] Speaker 2: I lived at home, you would come wake me up
[59:10] Speaker 2: and get me to work out, and nobody does that
[59:13] Speaker 2: for me now, he says.
[59:16] Speaker 1: So now.
[59:19] Speaker 2: I have to hear you even though you're not here.
[59:25] Speaker 2: I know that God is always present. I know that
[59:27] Speaker 2: he's always here, but there may be somebody in here
[59:30] Speaker 2: who you have been feeling like God is not speaking
[59:33] Speaker 2: to you anymore. And I think you think that because
[59:36] Speaker 2: you think you did something that disappointed him so much,
[59:39] Speaker 2: you did something that was so different, you are secretly
[59:42] Speaker 2: afraid that he's left you. You are secretly afraid that
[59:47] Speaker 2: you messed it up. Do you really think that the
[59:52] Speaker 2: God who raised up a shepherd named David to replace
[59:56] Speaker 2: a king named Saul doesn't have a plan for your
[59:58] Speaker 2: life too?
[1:00:00] Speaker 1: Do you really think God's that small that.
[1:00:03] Speaker 2: There's something you can do that's bigger than the blood
[1:00:07] Speaker 2: of Jesus. Do you really think that the God who
[1:00:10] Speaker 2: created you didn't have a contingency plan? Do you really
[1:00:13] Speaker 2: think that the God who knows your destination doesn't know
[1:00:16] Speaker 2: how to reroute you when you take a wrong turn?
[1:00:23] Speaker 2: So he's still speaking, Somebody says, speak, Lord, your servant
[1:00:29] Speaker 2: is listening. Stand to your feet all over this room,
[1:00:32] Speaker 2: heads bowed, eyes close. Although you may not be Samuel,
[1:00:37] Speaker 2: and you may not be a prophet, I'm not either.
[1:00:40] Speaker 2: A lot hinges on you hearing from God. The truth
[1:00:44] Speaker 2: of the matter is, if you keep listening to the
[1:00:46] Speaker 2: voice of the enemy. You're going to drive everyone and
[1:00:48] Speaker 2: everything away that you love. If you keep isolating and
[1:00:51] Speaker 2: thinking that God has you isolated, when God has really
[1:00:54] Speaker 2: surrounded you by people, you are going to continue to.
[1:00:57] Speaker 1: Be depressed and you can't pray it away. You're going
[1:00:59] Speaker 1: to have to obey it away. You hear me.
[1:01:02] Speaker 2: You can't pray that away. You're going to have to
[1:01:04] Speaker 2: take the next step. If you keep staring at the
[1:01:06] Speaker 2: missed opportunity called Saul, you will never meet the future
[1:01:09] Speaker 2: called David. You are going to have to fill your
[1:01:11] Speaker 2: horn with oil and be on your way.
[1:01:16] Speaker 1: With heads bowed and eyes closed.
[1:01:19] Speaker 2: I want to pray for the people in this room
[1:01:20] Speaker 2: today who have been feeling like God has stopped speaking
[1:01:24] Speaker 2: to you. You feel like it's been silent from heaven,
[1:01:29] Speaker 2: with heads about and eyes closed, no one looking around,
[1:01:31] Speaker 2: and even online. Would you raise your hand if that's you.
[1:01:33] Speaker 2: I felt like God has been not talking to me.
[1:01:37] Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna fix that right now. God said
[1:01:42] Speaker 2: he loves you. God said he knows you. God said
[1:01:47] Speaker 2: he knit you together in your mother's roomb. God said
[1:01:49] Speaker 2: that you are not a mistake. God said that he
[1:01:53] Speaker 2: knows the plans that He has for you. God said
[1:01:55] Speaker 2: that you're more than a conqueror. God said that nothing
[1:01:59] Speaker 2: in all create will be able to separate you from
[1:02:01] Speaker 2: the love of God that is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.
[1:02:07] Speaker 2: I know that's God's will, because that's God's word. I
[1:02:11] Speaker 2: want to pray for those today who have been paralyzed
[1:02:14] Speaker 2: by some decisions, and you've been letting the details that
[1:02:17] Speaker 2: you don't have distract you from the things that you
[1:02:19] Speaker 2: know to do.
[1:02:19] Speaker 1: Raise your hand. If that's you. I've been so distracted and.
[1:02:22] Speaker 2: So stressed about what I don't know that I haven't
[1:02:25] Speaker 2: been putt it.
[1:02:25] Speaker 1: Raise your hand.
[1:02:26] Speaker 2: If that's you, raise your hand, Raise it boldly. Father,
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, Your sheep, know your voice.
[1:02:31] Speaker 1: I pray that this week there's going to be clarity
[1:02:33] Speaker 1: in their spirit.
[1:02:35] Speaker 2: They're going to maybe not know what the next ten
[1:02:37] Speaker 2: steps are, but they will know what the next one is,
[1:02:39] Speaker 2: and they'll know who's with them. I thank you God
[1:02:41] Speaker 2: that we're walking in the confidence of a God who
[1:02:43] Speaker 2: never stops carrying us.
[1:02:46] Speaker 1: I thank you that we're walking in the confidence of
[1:02:48] Speaker 1: belonging to a.
[1:02:48] Speaker 2: God who knows the end from the beginning and God,
[1:02:52] Speaker 2: I thank you that.
[1:02:52] Speaker 1: You speak to us, not through the words that we
[1:02:56] Speaker 1: can hear, but through the whispers that we can't.
[1:03:03] Speaker 2: Father, help us to quiet the noise. What's that song
[1:03:07] Speaker 2: that we sing? Tune the whole world out. I don't
[1:03:09] Speaker 2: need a thing, couldn't ask for more. If I have
[1:03:14] Speaker 2: seen your face, I have all I want. Put me
[1:03:16] Speaker 2: at your feet. Tune the whole world out. You know
[1:03:20] Speaker 2: where I'll be in my father's house.
[1:03:26] Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.
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