WEBVTT 00:02.572 --> 00:03.953 [SPEAKER_00]: High praise podcasts. 00:09.134 --> 00:10.655 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.675 --> 00:15.637 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.177 --> 00:20.078 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.458 --> 00:24.340 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:25.300 --> 00:35.563 [SPEAKER_00]: We stepped into the summer season, as most of you know, obviously we kind of schools been out for a little bit, but summer officially started as far as the season on Friday. 00:35.803 --> 00:42.884 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to spend the next several weeks kind of spending our summer in the Psalms going through some of the things that are said in there. 00:43.605 --> 00:52.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And as we read some of these scriptures, as we step into this, I want you to understand that we're not just reading poetry, but we are stepping into prophetic declarations. 00:53.307 --> 01:04.435 [SPEAKER_00]: And today, as we are reading Psalms' twenty nine, I want you to read it as a prophetic declaration over your life, over your situation, over things that are going on in the world right now. 01:04.675 --> 01:07.037 [SPEAKER_00]: And that'll make a lot more sense as we begin to read it. 01:07.077 --> 01:16.924 [SPEAKER_00]: But just to set the stage before we even read it, I believe that there's a good chance that when David is writing this Psalm, that he is probably watching a storm roll in over the Mediterranean. 01:17.204 --> 01:21.047 [SPEAKER_00]: But what he's seeing is not just weather, he's seeing glory and motion. 01:21.467 --> 01:23.788 [SPEAKER_00]: What he's seeing isn't just a weather pattern. 01:24.068 --> 01:29.591 [SPEAKER_00]: He is seeing something that God is declaring through even a natural event through a storm. 01:29.831 --> 01:33.573 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is unveiling revelation to David. 01:33.613 --> 01:35.014 [SPEAKER_00]: He is giving him a picture. 01:35.034 --> 01:38.856 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be clear, not saying God caused devastation or anything to speak something to David. 01:39.096 --> 01:43.238 [SPEAKER_00]: But God in the midst of this storm, David is seeing the voice of the Lord. 01:43.298 --> 01:44.899 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not just hearing thunder. 01:45.219 --> 01:46.540 [SPEAKER_00]: He's hearing the voice of the Lord. 01:47.292 --> 01:47.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you all with me? 01:48.253 --> 01:50.654 [SPEAKER_00]: The Psalm that we're going to read isn't about the storm. 01:50.974 --> 01:53.076 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about the one who speaks through it. 01:53.196 --> 01:56.218 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say through it, I don't mean he uses a storm to speak. 01:56.358 --> 01:58.920 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean in the midst of the storm, God speaks. 01:59.800 --> 02:02.622 [SPEAKER_00]: That he's not silence in the midst of chaos. 02:03.103 --> 02:06.005 [SPEAKER_00]: That he's not silent when things aren't going the right way. 02:06.285 --> 02:07.906 [SPEAKER_00]: That God is still speaking. 02:08.186 --> 02:10.688 [SPEAKER_00]: And when God speaks, things don't stay the same. 02:12.070 --> 02:18.075 [SPEAKER_00]: When God speaks, things shift, things break, things stabilize, things have to move at the voice of the Lord. 02:18.295 --> 02:29.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm twenty nine verse one, given to the Lord, O you mighty ones, given to the Lord glory and strength, given to the Lord the glory due to his name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 02:29.304 --> 02:31.065 [SPEAKER_00]: Voice, verse three, get this. 02:31.385 --> 02:34.848 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord, this is important, is over the waters. 02:35.889 --> 02:37.950 [SPEAKER_00]: The God of glory thunders. 02:37.990 --> 02:39.372 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of Lord is over the waters. 02:40.491 --> 02:42.473 [SPEAKER_00]: and the God of glory thunders. 02:42.794 --> 02:45.456 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is over, many waters. 02:45.477 --> 02:46.818 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's not in verse three. 02:46.958 --> 02:47.699 [SPEAKER_00]: Go back to verse three for me. 02:47.719 --> 02:48.980 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's not in verse three. 02:49.201 --> 02:52.885 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord is over the waters and the God of glory thunders. 02:53.145 --> 02:55.207 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is over, many waters. 02:55.247 --> 02:55.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse four. 02:56.308 --> 02:58.230 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, it's the voice of the Lord is powerful. 02:58.851 --> 03:00.491 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of Lord is full of majesty. 03:01.092 --> 03:03.092 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord breaks the seaters. 03:03.732 --> 03:05.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the Lord splinters the seaters of Lebanon. 03:05.993 --> 03:12.234 [SPEAKER_00]: He makes them also a, also a skip like a calf, Lebanon in Syria, like a young wild ox. 03:12.374 --> 03:15.795 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire, verse eight. 03:16.315 --> 03:18.416 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness. 03:18.976 --> 03:21.096 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 03:21.576 --> 03:25.717 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord makes the dear give birth and tricks the forest bear. 03:26.317 --> 03:28.398 [SPEAKER_00]: And in his temple, everyone says, what? 03:29.339 --> 03:32.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Glory, the Lord sat in throned at the flood. 03:34.544 --> 03:47.238 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord will give strength to His people and the Lord will bless His people with what peace, verse in the Lord said in throned at the flood and the Lord sits as king forever. 03:48.373 --> 03:49.254 [SPEAKER_00]: part of it was missing. 03:49.274 --> 03:56.961 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord says, King forever, the Lord will give strength to His people and the Lord will bless His people with peace. 03:57.621 --> 04:09.231 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go back to verse three, one of the things that's happening here is David is describing some things that happen as the voice of the Lord begins to roar. 04:09.992 --> 04:12.233 [SPEAKER_00]: as the voice of the Lord begins to thunder. 04:12.734 --> 04:19.198 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not necessarily the volume that is the thunder, it is the authority that is released in the voice of the Lord. 04:19.718 --> 04:25.121 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that God is walking around screaming, it's authority in His voice when He speaks. 04:25.562 --> 04:28.243 [SPEAKER_00]: It's power whenever He begins to speak. 04:28.543 --> 04:31.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And in verse three, David says, the voice of the Lord is over the waters. 04:32.846 --> 04:34.007 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not under them. 04:35.086 --> 04:36.607 [SPEAKER_00]: He has not caught in them. 04:37.227 --> 04:38.407 [SPEAKER_00]: He is over them. 04:39.248 --> 04:53.353 [SPEAKER_00]: Now in the ancient world, to the ancient, my specialty to the Hebrews, waters, whenever they speak of waters, waters in their view were acquainted with chaos, with instability, with disorder and at times, even evil. 04:54.433 --> 04:59.535 [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever David is saying this, his language is very precise. 05:00.868 --> 05:09.655 [SPEAKER_00]: He is being very careful and descriptive whenever he says the voice of the Lord is over the waters. 05:10.476 --> 05:12.157 [SPEAKER_00]: He is above them. 05:12.657 --> 05:15.379 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not in chaos, come on somebody. 05:16.280 --> 05:18.163 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not in this order. 05:18.823 --> 05:20.566 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not in evil. 05:21.126 --> 05:22.328 [SPEAKER_00]: He is over it. 05:23.049 --> 05:25.011 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not using chaos. 05:25.432 --> 05:27.555 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not using instability. 05:27.915 --> 05:32.581 [SPEAKER_00]: He is not using this order and he most certainly is not using evil. 05:33.470 --> 05:43.135 [SPEAKER_00]: But God is over them, denoting His authority, denoting His dominion, denoting His power over all of it. 05:43.375 --> 05:46.777 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord doesn't shrink from disorder. 05:47.037 --> 05:48.078 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it. 05:48.638 --> 05:51.380 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord doesn't shrink from chaos. 05:51.700 --> 05:52.921 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it. 05:53.261 --> 05:55.802 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord doesn't shrink from evil. 05:56.122 --> 05:57.483 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it. 05:57.783 --> 06:02.426 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever he speaks over it, things have to change. 06:03.845 --> 06:07.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all, with me this morning, things have to change at the voice of the Lord. 06:09.308 --> 06:10.789 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of Lord is over the waters. 06:11.529 --> 06:13.270 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a dominion he has over them. 06:13.330 --> 06:16.792 [SPEAKER_00]: He has authority over cast, authority over instability. 06:17.052 --> 06:20.794 [SPEAKER_00]: And to the Hebrew mind, they would immediately connect this to Genesis chapter one. 06:22.615 --> 06:25.537 [SPEAKER_00]: Immediately, the voice of Lord is over the waters. 06:26.257 --> 06:29.579 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're immediately going to connect all the way back to Genesis one. 06:29.959 --> 06:31.140 [SPEAKER_00]: The earth was without form. 06:32.462 --> 06:42.127 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was fluid, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was doing what, hovering over the face of the waters. 06:44.088 --> 06:55.634 [SPEAKER_00]: And then God says, let there be light, and there's light, and God brings order in the midst of chaos. 06:56.774 --> 07:01.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, I want you to hear me, the voice of the Lord today is still hovering over the waters. 07:03.201 --> 07:22.081 [SPEAKER_00]: in your life where things feel like they're broken, where things feel like they're out of order, where things feel like the enemy may have gotten a foothold, the enemy does not have authority, the voice of the Lord still hovers over the waters, and He begins to speak and things begin to move. 07:22.681 --> 07:25.684 [SPEAKER_00]: Darkness could not exist whenever he said light be. 07:26.064 --> 07:29.487 [SPEAKER_00]: And hear me, the Lord is speaking over your situation this morning. 07:29.767 --> 07:30.948 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what David is saying. 07:31.168 --> 07:34.131 [SPEAKER_00]: But the voice of the Lord comes to speak in the midst of it. 07:34.391 --> 07:35.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear this once you hear me really good. 07:35.832 --> 07:39.816 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not speaking through Iran, Israel, conflict. 07:40.156 --> 07:42.258 [SPEAKER_00]: What he does is he speaks over it. 07:45.625 --> 07:46.805 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it. 07:47.565 --> 07:49.186 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't use it to speak. 07:49.766 --> 07:51.226 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks with his voice. 07:51.766 --> 07:52.907 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Spirit. 07:53.127 --> 07:57.128 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not using political instability to speak to us. 07:57.428 --> 07:58.648 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it. 07:58.928 --> 08:03.789 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not using the brokenness in your family to speak. 08:04.049 --> 08:06.250 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not using sickness to speak. 08:06.530 --> 08:09.151 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not using economic lack to speak. 08:09.411 --> 08:15.252 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks over it and he calls chaos into order because the voice of the Lord 08:15.672 --> 08:25.267 [SPEAKER_00]: funders and winning funders speeds have to change when his voice speaks things move. 08:26.361 --> 08:30.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing has any choice but to move when the voice of the Lord speaks over it. 08:30.602 --> 08:33.403 [SPEAKER_00]: With dominion, with power, with authority. 08:33.623 --> 08:36.304 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I don't care what your son and daughter are doing. 08:36.544 --> 08:40.865 [SPEAKER_00]: When the voice of the Lord fenders over their situation, things have to move. 08:41.165 --> 08:43.205 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what your bank account looks like. 08:43.445 --> 08:46.566 [SPEAKER_00]: When the voice of the Lord speaks over, things have to move. 08:46.866 --> 08:49.207 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you've been sick for twenty-five years. 08:49.447 --> 08:53.168 [SPEAKER_00]: When the voice of the Lord fenders over it, things have to move. 08:55.785 --> 08:59.346 [SPEAKER_00]: So what David's telling us, there might be chaos. 09:01.046 --> 09:05.787 [SPEAKER_00]: But God doesn't shrink and isn't scared of the chaos. 09:07.828 --> 09:09.208 [SPEAKER_00]: He's over the situation. 09:10.409 --> 09:12.249 [SPEAKER_00]: He has all authority in all power. 09:13.249 --> 09:22.351 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's just waiting for the moment where he says, now change, now move, now bow, now peace. 09:23.912 --> 09:24.412 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all with me? 09:26.781 --> 09:31.583 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what, Genesis one and Psalm twenty nine tell me, God doesn't wait for order to speak. 09:33.224 --> 09:34.424 [SPEAKER_00]: His voice brings order. 09:35.745 --> 09:38.987 [SPEAKER_00]: So often we're like if we could just get everything together, God could speak. 09:39.327 --> 09:41.528 [SPEAKER_00]: God shows up before things are in order. 09:42.168 --> 09:43.729 [SPEAKER_00]: God's voice brings the order. 09:44.149 --> 09:46.870 [SPEAKER_00]: God's voice brings the alignment. 09:47.290 --> 09:52.913 [SPEAKER_00]: God's voice is the one that's not getting rid of the enemy because God's scared of them and then he'll show up. 09:53.723 --> 09:55.884 [SPEAKER_00]: God's voice, thank wishes the enemy. 09:55.924 --> 09:57.364 [SPEAKER_00]: That was part of the word of the Lord today. 09:57.664 --> 10:00.686 [SPEAKER_00]: That God is sending your enemy fleeing seven different ways. 10:00.966 --> 10:03.747 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not sending the enemy fleeing and then he shows up. 10:04.007 --> 10:07.428 [SPEAKER_00]: He shows up and his voice thunders and then the enemy fleets. 10:09.369 --> 10:09.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all with me? 10:11.770 --> 10:21.033 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times, we'll be starting to say, the enemy, he traffics in static and distraction in anxiety and uncertainty. 10:22.377 --> 10:28.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, with everything that's going on right now in the world, abroad, here, everywhere else. 10:28.822 --> 10:29.743 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody hates each other. 10:29.763 --> 10:32.305 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's mad all the time. 10:32.325 --> 10:35.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's just looking for something to hate somebody else about. 10:36.508 --> 10:40.131 [SPEAKER_00]: In the midst of that, if you feel that, that's not the voice of the Lord. 10:41.530 --> 10:46.076 [SPEAKER_00]: If you feel anxious about what's going on in the world now, that's not the voice of the Lord. 10:46.637 --> 10:48.619 [SPEAKER_00]: That is getting pulled into the waters. 10:49.120 --> 10:53.646 [SPEAKER_00]: But the voice of the Lord is here to speak over it and call it into alignment. 10:53.906 --> 10:56.389 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to stop listening to the voice of the water. 10:57.575 --> 11:00.877 [SPEAKER_00]: And you've got to start listening to the voice of the one who is over the waters. 11:01.438 --> 11:06.761 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to stop listening to the voices that I could really get on a thing today. 11:06.981 --> 11:15.587 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to stop listening to the voices that are promoting fear and anxiety and strife and disorder and chaos. 11:15.827 --> 11:19.930 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have to attune your ear to the one whose voice is over the waters. 11:23.643 --> 11:27.505 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry to disappoint you that I didn't break out my chart of Revelation this morning. 11:30.247 --> 11:32.868 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is a real prophetic work over what's going on. 11:34.589 --> 11:36.590 [SPEAKER_00]: Half of what we call it, my lady's got to keep my notes. 11:36.650 --> 11:37.090 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll get in trouble. 11:38.551 --> 11:40.932 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a sound from heaven that's cutting through confusion. 11:42.273 --> 11:44.014 [SPEAKER_00]: A sound that's louder than depression. 11:45.135 --> 11:46.855 [SPEAKER_00]: It's louder than your diagnosis. 11:48.036 --> 11:49.377 [SPEAKER_00]: It's louder than the delay. 11:50.407 --> 11:55.309 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord is over the waters, and he's about to speak peace to you, strong. 11:55.329 --> 11:57.210 [SPEAKER_00]: The next thing he says in verse five, you're not to the other up. 11:57.590 --> 12:00.291 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse five, this is wanting in very intentional language. 12:00.871 --> 12:05.293 [SPEAKER_00]: It says this, if I can find it, in verse five, the voice of the Lord breaks the seaters. 12:07.093 --> 12:11.055 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the Lord splinters the seaters of Lebanon. 12:12.355 --> 12:16.897 [SPEAKER_00]: The seaters of Lebanon, once again, in this are more than just trees 12:18.389 --> 12:19.850 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a symbol, it's a picture. 12:20.650 --> 12:28.414 [SPEAKER_00]: In the ancient world, once again, it would help us a lot if we read scripture through a lens of understanding what it's actually saying. 12:29.274 --> 12:31.475 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like praise God, God breaks some trees. 12:31.595 --> 12:31.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 12:33.776 --> 12:35.037 [SPEAKER_00]: Hurricanes break trees. 12:36.507 --> 12:38.429 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what David is saying. 12:39.810 --> 12:42.432 [SPEAKER_00]: The cedars, it was the most powerful tree, right? 12:42.833 --> 12:47.777 [SPEAKER_00]: It represented power, it represented dominance, it represented the high places. 12:48.378 --> 12:52.021 [SPEAKER_00]: You could even say it represented principalities and powers. 12:52.041 --> 13:00.729 [SPEAKER_00]: It was really interesting, I was doing a little research, and particularly cedars would have been used to build temples for false gods, altars to bail. 13:00.769 --> 13:02.470 [SPEAKER_00]: They would have used cedar trees. 13:03.873 --> 13:08.097 [SPEAKER_00]: shrines to demonic systems were built with cedar trees. 13:08.817 --> 13:16.444 [SPEAKER_00]: And David shows up, and he says, the voice of the Lord shatters the trees of Lebanon. 13:17.064 --> 13:19.126 [SPEAKER_00]: It shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 13:19.406 --> 13:21.508 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't say that he blows them to and fro. 13:22.429 --> 13:27.854 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't say they do a little sway in the wind, but it says that the voice of the Lord shatters them. 13:28.474 --> 13:28.734 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 13:28.974 --> 13:49.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Because when the voice of the Lord is released, that which seems strong and immovable, the strongholds and principalities and powers and the things that have just been in place that make the way, the world it is and make the way, your life, the way it is begin to be shattered at the voice of the Lord. 13:50.223 --> 13:50.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we 13:52.682 --> 13:54.642 [SPEAKER_00]: underestimated, so it's sad that we do this. 13:54.662 --> 13:58.143 [SPEAKER_00]: There's so many Christians that we underestimate the power of his voice over our lives. 13:58.583 --> 14:00.244 [SPEAKER_00]: And we listen to every other voice. 14:03.064 --> 14:06.805 [SPEAKER_00]: And we give it dominance over his, which dad's got great books on voices one and two. 14:06.845 --> 14:09.045 [SPEAKER_00]: I think three's coming out soon. 14:09.945 --> 14:11.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever that means, praise God. 14:11.446 --> 14:12.466 [SPEAKER_00]: In the next year, hopefully. 14:13.226 --> 14:13.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Amen. 14:15.246 --> 14:15.507 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 14:15.527 --> 14:17.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said he's coming back soon, two thousand years ago. 14:18.415 --> 14:22.277 [SPEAKER_00]: The books come in soon, I mean, but you need to get those books and read them. 14:22.317 --> 14:26.498 [SPEAKER_00]: They're excellent books, but we are so tuned in to every other voice. 14:28.379 --> 14:33.201 [SPEAKER_00]: To the voice of the podcast, to the voice of the news, depending on what age you are depends on what voice you're listening to. 14:34.422 --> 14:34.622 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 14:35.982 --> 14:41.305 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't, this is not generationalist, I don't think it's even a word, I just made it up. 14:43.105 --> 14:46.767 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're a boomer you listen to the news of 14:47.693 --> 14:52.317 [SPEAKER_00]: or excuse me, the voice of the news media, cable news, right? 14:52.817 --> 14:55.939 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a millennial, you're probably going to listen to the voice of podcasts. 14:57.360 --> 15:00.123 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're Gen Z, you're probably going to listen to the voice of TikTok. 15:04.526 --> 15:10.471 [SPEAKER_00]: And none of those voices, none of those voices hold a candle 15:11.321 --> 15:12.722 [SPEAKER_00]: to the voice of the Lord. 15:13.502 --> 15:26.170 [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what Fox News or CNN or MSNBC is saying, no matter what Joe Rogan is saying or whatever podcast you listen to, and I don't even know when he TikTok influencer, so I can't name any of them. 15:26.430 --> 15:37.377 [SPEAKER_00]: But whatever influencer on TikTok you listen to, to the voice of the Lord is over all of those, and he shatters every single one of them. 15:39.215 --> 15:42.918 [SPEAKER_00]: We would do ourselves such good if we would listen to the right voices. 15:43.538 --> 15:51.165 [SPEAKER_00]: Every voice is shouting at us and Christians today have a propensity to listen to every other voice except the voice of Lord. 15:51.505 --> 16:00.072 [SPEAKER_00]: And the every other voice on the outside that are in these systems are telling us what God is saying and most of them couldn't be any more wrong. 16:04.035 --> 16:07.418 [SPEAKER_00]: They take their agenda and attach God to it. 16:07.878 --> 16:09.379 [SPEAKER_00]: And say, this is what God's saying. 16:09.459 --> 16:10.840 [SPEAKER_00]: God's not saying any of that mess. 16:11.261 --> 16:12.081 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what God's saying? 16:12.301 --> 16:13.783 [SPEAKER_00]: The same thing he said here. 16:14.003 --> 16:14.964 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what God is saying? 16:15.024 --> 16:17.025 [SPEAKER_00]: The same thing he said in the gospels. 16:17.325 --> 16:18.306 [SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't changed. 16:18.546 --> 16:20.408 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the same yesterday today. 16:20.748 --> 16:21.348 [SPEAKER_00]: and forever. 16:21.629 --> 16:24.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And what he said then, he is still saying now. 16:24.890 --> 16:27.572 [SPEAKER_00]: And his voice still shatters, principalities. 16:27.872 --> 16:29.853 [SPEAKER_00]: His voice still shatters powers. 16:30.173 --> 16:36.737 [SPEAKER_00]: His voice still causes systems that work against the kingdom of God to be broken and brought to naught. 16:39.358 --> 16:42.900 [SPEAKER_00]: These aren't minor obstacles that David's painting a picture of. 16:42.940 --> 16:45.421 [SPEAKER_00]: These are ancient systems that think they're untouchable. 16:46.162 --> 16:48.643 [SPEAKER_00]: And David says the voice of the Lord splinters them. 16:50.057 --> 16:50.677 [SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking about this. 16:51.377 --> 16:55.839 [SPEAKER_00]: How many you lived here through Hurricane Michael in twenty eighteen, wave of me? 16:56.159 --> 16:57.519 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the vast majority of y'all. 16:57.899 --> 17:00.340 [SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I, of course, we were both born and raised here. 17:00.880 --> 17:02.241 [SPEAKER_00]: We were born in Gulf Coast, right, babes. 17:03.341 --> 17:04.341 [SPEAKER_00]: She goes, I think so, maybe. 17:04.401 --> 17:05.642 [SPEAKER_00]: We see born in Gulf Coast, Theresa. 17:06.122 --> 17:10.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we were both born in Gulf Coast Hospital, just like David Roman. 17:12.163 --> 17:13.424 [SPEAKER_00]: That's an inside joke. 17:13.524 --> 17:17.325 [SPEAKER_00]: David's from Puerto Rico, but if you ask David where you from, he says, Gulf Coast Hospital. 17:22.032 --> 17:50.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Born and raised here we moved in twenty fifteen so we were gone we weren't living here during the storm but we were kind of on the first train back in so to speak I was with that in the car come back to do relief work and for years and years on two thirty one you could drive and whenever you started driving into Panama City on two thirty one what did you see everywhere trees right and in my mind those trees and not just in my mind in reality those trees were older than me 17:52.733 --> 17:54.314 [SPEAKER_00]: And they had been there forever. 17:55.354 --> 18:08.782 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember we were driving back from Orlando, and I remember we hit a certain point on two, thirty-one, and it literally looked like, and a lot of you remember this, it literally looked like somebody just came in with a bus solve. 18:10.378 --> 18:13.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you get the item and it started, but then the two thirty one, it was really bad. 18:14.162 --> 18:16.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Look, somebody came on the bus hall and just went to poop, right? 18:17.445 --> 18:20.127 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when we drove around trees, we're going from everywhere. 18:20.408 --> 18:22.350 [SPEAKER_00]: That a wind did that. 18:24.712 --> 18:26.313 [SPEAKER_00]: What seemed immutable? 18:27.445 --> 18:33.888 [SPEAKER_00]: When the wind blew began to move, and obviously that wasn't a good thing for this community, it brought destruction. 18:34.128 --> 18:38.030 [SPEAKER_00]: But hear me, I want you to paint a picture in your mind of this. 18:39.510 --> 18:44.893 [SPEAKER_00]: As devastating as that was, when the voice of God begins to speak, 18:45.413 --> 19:08.573 [SPEAKER_00]: that which seemed immovable, that which seemed unshakable, that which seemed it would outlive you, the systems that felt like you would be trapped in your whole life, the generational patterns that you thought your kids were going to walk in, listen, his voice comes like a buzz saw, to splinter all of that, so that patterns have to be broken, so that powers have to be broken, 19:08.873 --> 19:21.197 [SPEAKER_00]: So the things have to change, so that that which is exalted itself against the kingdom of God, that which exalted itself against your family, that which exalted itself against legacy has to be broken. 19:22.137 --> 19:24.938 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, I'm not just talking about habits, I'm talking about high places. 19:28.819 --> 19:30.539 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the powers that grow tall. 19:32.420 --> 19:33.080 [SPEAKER_00]: The dig deep. 19:34.618 --> 19:39.681 [SPEAKER_00]: that disguise themselves as cultural norms, as wounds, as family patterns. 19:40.741 --> 19:43.343 [SPEAKER_00]: They set up in families and cities and churches. 19:44.203 --> 19:47.825 [SPEAKER_00]: They whisper, this is how it is always going to be. 19:50.066 --> 19:51.887 [SPEAKER_00]: It is always going to be this way. 19:52.887 --> 19:53.788 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't change it. 19:54.568 --> 19:55.689 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't do anything. 19:56.129 --> 19:57.830 [SPEAKER_00]: And the news is this, you're right. 19:58.410 --> 19:59.271 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't change it. 20:00.331 --> 20:01.252 [SPEAKER_00]: But I know a voice. 20:03.357 --> 20:05.398 [SPEAKER_00]: that shatters the seed of truth. 20:06.299 --> 20:11.042 [SPEAKER_00]: I know a voice that no matter how strong it looks, his voice splinters it. 20:11.062 --> 20:13.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you admit? 20:14.684 --> 20:19.307 [SPEAKER_00]: When God begins to speak, when his people begin to echo his word, the seeder start to crack. 20:19.327 --> 20:19.868 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say this. 20:20.168 --> 20:22.149 [SPEAKER_00]: This is also why you need to know what the scripture says. 20:23.270 --> 20:27.513 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you ever want to know how to speak in accordance with the Lord, speak description. 20:29.985 --> 20:33.767 [SPEAKER_00]: That's one of the problems we have in the world is we have people that speak their opinion rather than speak the word. 20:36.809 --> 20:38.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I heard this from God. 20:38.089 --> 20:40.371 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you didn't because he already said something completely different. 20:44.193 --> 20:44.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me. 20:44.693 --> 20:45.013 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me. 20:47.234 --> 20:51.977 [SPEAKER_00]: We used to declare today, Father, we tear down every stronghold. 20:53.106 --> 20:58.170 [SPEAKER_00]: every system, every demonic principality that's posing as personality. 20:59.751 --> 21:02.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Every strong man is bound in Jesus' name. 21:02.613 --> 21:07.937 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me what used to be a stronghold can now become your testimony. 21:09.619 --> 21:12.281 [SPEAKER_00]: What stood in the way will now be part of what fuels your praise. 21:14.422 --> 21:17.445 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last thing I want to touch on, I'm almost done, you'll be two or three more minutes. 21:18.818 --> 21:19.739 [SPEAKER_00]: It's at the very end. 21:19.759 --> 21:23.541 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, though the verse is like nine and ten, I think is what it is. 21:23.861 --> 21:25.042 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'll just scroll up on my notes. 21:25.062 --> 21:25.522 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me do this. 21:25.542 --> 21:26.382 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me be easier. 21:26.823 --> 21:27.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Says this in verse ten. 21:28.183 --> 21:30.245 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord set enthroned at the flood. 21:31.525 --> 21:33.006 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord sits this king forever. 21:33.046 --> 21:35.428 [SPEAKER_00]: So once again, it's this imagery of the waters. 21:37.189 --> 21:39.330 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord sits enthroned over it. 21:41.325 --> 21:45.206 [SPEAKER_00]: and the Lord sits as king forever. 21:46.066 --> 21:52.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it says, the Lord will give strength to his people, and the Lord will bless his people with peace. 21:53.449 --> 21:56.509 [SPEAKER_00]: You know how you have peace, the absence of the storm. 21:58.490 --> 22:05.032 [SPEAKER_00]: You know how you have peace, you know that even in the middle of it, that he still sits and throned over it. 22:07.509 --> 22:13.994 [SPEAKER_00]: In the greatest natural disaster created recorded in Scripture, he was seated. 22:15.095 --> 22:15.936 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't pacing. 22:17.877 --> 22:20.500 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't pacing going, oh, what are we going to do? 22:20.560 --> 22:21.200 [SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do? 22:21.240 --> 22:21.821 [SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do? 22:22.181 --> 22:22.781 [SPEAKER_00]: He was seated. 22:22.801 --> 22:28.206 [SPEAKER_00]: It paints this picture of God going, I got this. 22:30.237 --> 22:31.797 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter what's going on, I got this. 22:32.758 --> 22:35.619 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to understand even with what's going on in the world today. 22:36.039 --> 22:39.700 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is not pacing in heaven trying to figure out what the outcome is going to be. 22:40.520 --> 22:41.460 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is seated. 22:43.041 --> 22:46.822 [SPEAKER_00]: He is seated and He reigns forever, which means this. 22:47.142 --> 22:48.543 [SPEAKER_00]: He was king before the storm. 22:49.963 --> 22:51.203 [SPEAKER_00]: He is king in the storm. 22:51.944 --> 22:54.004 [SPEAKER_00]: And He will be king after the storm. 22:54.024 --> 22:55.105 [SPEAKER_00]: They put it this way. 22:55.345 --> 22:56.325 [SPEAKER_00]: He ain't going anywhere. 22:58.910 --> 22:59.870 [SPEAKER_00]: He ain't going anywhere. 23:00.470 --> 23:07.292 [SPEAKER_00]: No matter what happens today tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, God doesn't fall off the throne because of what happens in culture. 23:07.652 --> 23:10.453 [SPEAKER_00]: He is seated and that should give us peace. 23:12.493 --> 23:13.853 [SPEAKER_00]: That should give us peace. 23:15.554 --> 23:18.094 [SPEAKER_00]: There's this stabilizing power of His voice. 23:19.355 --> 23:24.276 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only does His voice shift and not only does His voice break, but His voice settles. 23:25.696 --> 23:27.077 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, you're not going under. 23:27.597 --> 23:28.237 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got this. 23:29.538 --> 23:31.839 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't just take away the storm. 23:32.159 --> 23:33.500 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks peace to it. 23:34.140 --> 23:35.781 [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, we have this picture of Jesus. 23:36.101 --> 23:37.441 [SPEAKER_00]: He's asleep on the boat. 23:38.782 --> 23:39.982 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're in the middle of form. 23:41.003 --> 23:43.324 [SPEAKER_00]: You know why Jesus could sleep in the storm? 23:44.444 --> 23:45.644 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's seated over it. 23:46.585 --> 23:47.645 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're all freaking out. 23:47.745 --> 23:51.467 [SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus just comes out and he goes, hey guys, he's all freaking out about peace. 23:54.868 --> 23:56.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Peace be still. 23:58.438 --> 24:03.001 [SPEAKER_00]: in the midst of the raging with his authority, he speaks peace. 24:03.901 --> 24:06.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Can I just say this over the situation in the Middle East? 24:06.483 --> 24:07.463 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going on right now. 24:07.783 --> 24:13.947 [SPEAKER_00]: While nation's rage, the voice of the Lord still shows up and says peace be still. 24:14.567 --> 24:19.170 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord still shows up and seats peace over chaos. 24:19.470 --> 24:22.492 [SPEAKER_00]: In Roman XVI it says this, it is the God of 24:23.545 --> 24:27.046 [SPEAKER_00]: peace that will soon crush Satan underneath his feet. 24:27.326 --> 24:38.428 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the greatest power that God has, the power of his authority to speak peace when the enemy wants to rage, the power of his authority to speak peace whenever people want to kill each other. 24:40.728 --> 24:42.468 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't shout me down on this church this morning. 24:43.989 --> 24:46.929 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord doesn't just thunder for the sake of noise. 24:48.190 --> 24:50.630 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just about volume, it's about victory. 24:53.363 --> 24:55.544 [SPEAKER_00]: It shifts atmospheres over chaos. 24:57.145 --> 25:00.666 [SPEAKER_00]: It breaks barriers that generations have accepted as unmovable. 25:02.307 --> 25:03.487 [SPEAKER_00]: His voice thunders. 25:04.368 --> 25:06.528 [SPEAKER_00]: It ignites response in the house of God. 25:06.568 --> 25:07.329 [SPEAKER_00]: It talks about that. 25:07.889 --> 25:10.030 [SPEAKER_00]: And his house says, glory, why? 25:10.270 --> 25:11.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Because his voice is speaking. 25:12.531 --> 25:14.672 [SPEAKER_00]: And hear me, his voice is still speaking today. 25:15.888 --> 25:18.009 [SPEAKER_00]: in the middle of your situation, it's still speaking. 25:18.769 --> 25:25.251 [SPEAKER_00]: You need a word from God that thunders and every other lie gets drowned out. 25:26.932 --> 25:28.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Every other lie gets drowned out. 25:29.012 --> 25:36.635 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to sound that snaps pride, that shakes fear, that splinter shame and that shifts atmospheres. 25:37.535 --> 25:40.436 [SPEAKER_00]: You need a voice that isn't just a loud voice. 25:40.996 --> 25:42.357 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of loud voices. 25:42.837 --> 25:45.558 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't just need a loud voice, you need a voice of authority. 25:47.353 --> 25:48.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents, I don't know what I'm talking about. 25:48.514 --> 25:50.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully you know what I'm talking about. 25:53.239 --> 25:58.444 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a way you can talk, especially when your kids are really young, that you don't have to shout. 26:02.107 --> 26:03.608 [SPEAKER_00]: You can just speak with authority. 26:06.011 --> 26:08.053 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that voice, you just drop it in octave. 26:10.327 --> 26:10.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 26:11.027 --> 26:11.808 [SPEAKER_00]: And what happens? 26:12.548 --> 26:16.211 [SPEAKER_00]: What is under your dominion, your children, y'all are saying the way I say that? 26:16.531 --> 26:21.154 [SPEAKER_00]: What is under your rule, what is under your authority, response? 26:21.914 --> 26:25.857 [SPEAKER_00]: God doesn't show up to shout at the enemy and get in a shouting match with him. 26:27.058 --> 26:30.760 [SPEAKER_00]: He speaks with authority and he has no choice but to move. 26:31.861 --> 26:33.842 [SPEAKER_00]: He has no choice but for things to shift. 26:34.498 --> 26:40.043 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have been stuck behind those seeders, big intimidating things that look immutable. 26:40.083 --> 26:43.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you have been caught in storms, tossed, too and fro. 26:43.546 --> 26:48.611 [SPEAKER_00]: So you have been trying to sing your song in the middle of the chaos, but feel like your voice got stolen. 26:48.972 --> 26:51.334 [SPEAKER_00]: But today, the voice of the Lord is rolling in. 26:52.054 --> 26:54.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, it's moving over the waters. 26:55.257 --> 26:56.879 [SPEAKER_00]: It's crackling through the seeders. 26:57.860 --> 26:59.001 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's filling the temple. 27:01.809 --> 27:06.071 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been in a season, and honestly, we probably all have been somewhat just culturally. 27:06.832 --> 27:12.335 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you've been in a season where everything felt noisy, but God felt distant, His voice is thundering today. 27:13.928 --> 27:19.692 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been in a situation where you felt like everything was allowed except for him, his voice is thundering today. 27:20.353 --> 27:29.760 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've been surrounded by strongholds that needed splintering today is the day for you to receive from that voice that David was talking about. 27:30.080 --> 27:34.604 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're desperate for peace in a raging storm today is your altar. 27:36.909 --> 27:49.213 [SPEAKER_00]: for you to hear from that voice and peace to come over your life, over every situation, over every circumstance because the voice of the Lord changes things. 27:50.176 --> 27:53.217 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord shifts things. 27:53.657 --> 27:57.738 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord brings triumph and victory. 27:58.038 --> 28:01.759 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord is stronger than the voice of the culture. 28:02.039 --> 28:05.380 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord is louder than the voice of the enemy. 28:05.640 --> 28:19.903 [SPEAKER_00]: The voice of the Lord roars through your situation in circumstance and says it has to move his voice thunders today over every heart, every life, in every situation where you stand up to your feet this morning. 28:20.543 --> 28:22.505 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 28:22.585 --> 28:26.407 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted 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