WEBVTT 00:02.521 --> 00:03.922 [SPEAKER_00]: High Praise Podcasts. 00:03.962 --> 00:10.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, this is Pastor Josh. 00:10.626 --> 00:15.630 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll leave Pastor here at High Praise and I want to thank you for downloading today's podcast. 00:16.130 --> 00:20.033 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that this message is going to encourage and bless you. 00:20.433 --> 00:24.336 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want you to open up your heart and receive with the Lord as for you today. 00:26.107 --> 00:28.709 [SPEAKER_00]: How many have been here for a little bit of this series we've been doing on Beyond? 00:28.729 --> 00:29.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you all been blessed by this? 00:30.370 --> 00:33.072 [SPEAKER_00]: Really, so we're going to wrap this up. 00:33.173 --> 00:42.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Before we get to the scripture, I want to kind of set a little bit of the stage of what we're going to be talking about today by asking you a question. 00:43.140 --> 00:53.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever been at a point in your life where you've just said about a situation about something you've been trying to accomplish about something that you knew was a call, 00:57.568 --> 00:58.969 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm done, right? 00:59.790 --> 01:05.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Put a fork in me, stick a fork in it, I'm done, right? 01:05.855 --> 01:06.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody ever been there before? 01:07.237 --> 01:15.524 [SPEAKER_00]: And what we really mean most of the time when we say we're done is not that we're done, what we really oftentimes mean is I'm tired, right? 01:16.124 --> 01:18.567 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired of working and not seeing progress. 01:19.430 --> 01:22.492 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I would be further down the road than where I am right now. 01:22.872 --> 01:25.833 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought we would be further more a further advance. 01:26.113 --> 01:29.055 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I would have seen the promise by now. 01:29.175 --> 01:31.496 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been standing and believing for this for a long time. 01:31.516 --> 01:35.718 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just standing and believing, but putting my hand to the plow and working with the promise of God. 01:35.958 --> 01:40.520 [SPEAKER_00]: And I look around and I feel like I'm still in a ashype and I'm still in a construction zone. 01:40.781 --> 01:43.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, I don't know when this thing's going to be accomplished. 01:43.102 --> 01:43.442 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm done. 01:45.422 --> 01:45.642 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 01:46.222 --> 01:51.224 [SPEAKER_00]: And we generally don't really mean, I'm done, we generally mean, I'm tired, right? 01:51.244 --> 01:54.865 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like this, you've ever had somebody ask you to help them move before? 01:57.866 --> 02:01.307 [SPEAKER_00]: I can tell by the response, most of you in the room have had that experience. 02:02.408 --> 02:05.128 [SPEAKER_00]: And they say, I'm like, I need you to help me unload this couch. 02:08.069 --> 02:09.150 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're feeling great. 02:10.770 --> 02:12.571 [SPEAKER_00]: And you get the couch off the moving truck. 02:13.785 --> 02:20.328 [SPEAKER_00]: And you might get it in the door after some, you know, you gotta turn it this way. 02:20.388 --> 02:21.168 [SPEAKER_00]: No, that's not the right way. 02:21.188 --> 02:22.009 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta turn it that way. 02:22.029 --> 02:26.651 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you in the person, you're moving the couch with her in an argument and you don't even know why you're arguing because you're both trying to accomplish the same thing. 02:26.671 --> 02:29.432 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to know that you can figure it out, but it's definitely their fault, not yours. 02:32.733 --> 02:36.735 [SPEAKER_00]: And you get it in the doors, and then there's stairs, where's the couch going? 02:42.884 --> 02:45.165 [SPEAKER_00]: get it about half way up the stairs and then you're exhausted. 02:45.185 --> 02:45.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm done. 02:47.145 --> 02:48.186 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't really mean we're done. 02:48.226 --> 02:50.026 [SPEAKER_00]: We just mean we need some help. 02:51.487 --> 02:52.847 [SPEAKER_00]: We mean that we're tired. 02:53.628 --> 02:58.489 [SPEAKER_00]: We mean that we're tired of going through this and not seeing the forward progress. 03:01.250 --> 03:04.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever been in situations in your life where you say I'm done but you really mean I'm tired? 03:05.412 --> 03:06.052 [SPEAKER_00]: You still care. 03:06.932 --> 03:07.192 [SPEAKER_00]: You still 03:11.005 --> 03:14.788 [SPEAKER_00]: But you've been strong for everybody else and you're wondering when somebody gonna carry you. 03:14.808 --> 03:17.189 [SPEAKER_00]: All right? 03:17.690 --> 03:21.532 [SPEAKER_00]: You made it into church, but getting here took more than anybody knows. 03:22.733 --> 03:26.656 [SPEAKER_00]: You made it another day, but you don't know how you made it another day. 03:26.716 --> 03:29.478 [SPEAKER_00]: You just kind of existed through one day into the next. 03:30.658 --> 03:32.059 [SPEAKER_00]: My preaching to anybody this morning. 03:32.360 --> 03:36.923 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I want to speak to the person today whose heart is willing, but whose strength is running low. 03:37.722 --> 03:45.946 [SPEAKER_00]: The person who can see the vision of what God wants to do, but you feel like you have no idea how you're going to get there. 03:45.986 --> 03:48.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, you're not a failure because you need help. 03:50.829 --> 03:53.951 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not faithless because you've cried tears over the situation. 03:54.836 --> 04:02.358 [SPEAKER_00]: God is not done with you, and he's not going to forsake you just because you look at the mountain, and you don't know how in the world is going to be cast into the sea. 04:02.878 --> 04:08.420 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand something, God has not become powerless even if you feel powerless. 04:09.100 --> 04:12.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Because his strength is not based in the way that you feel. 04:13.362 --> 04:20.944 [SPEAKER_00]: His ability is not based on our ability, so in fact, God strength most of time works to best whenever we run out of our ability. 04:23.692 --> 04:25.433 [SPEAKER_00]: You keep asking, how much more do I have in me? 04:25.893 --> 04:30.936 [SPEAKER_00]: But today, I want us to remember who's with us, and who's power as it work in us. 04:31.556 --> 04:33.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Your strength might have an ending. 04:33.737 --> 04:37.259 [SPEAKER_00]: But I promise you this, his faithfulness does not have an ending. 04:37.619 --> 04:41.161 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because your low-one strength does not mean that he's low-one faithfulness. 04:41.501 --> 04:44.183 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because you don't know how you're gonna make it another mile. 04:44.403 --> 04:48.765 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't mean that God is that I'm tired and I'm exhausted, and we're just gonna give up on this project. 04:48.985 --> 04:55.826 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because you feel like you don't have any lift, any strength to lift, any more, doesn't mean that God has suddenly become weak. 04:56.006 --> 04:58.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Because whenever you feel weak, he is still strong. 04:59.127 --> 05:03.167 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you feel like you are running low on faith, he is still able. 05:03.367 --> 05:17.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you see the obstacle, and you don't know how you're gonna overcome it, the good news is this, I know a God who looks at the obstacle, it says, I'm so much bigger than the obstacle, and I will listen, if I gotta throw you over the wall, I'm gonna throw you over the wall, but we're gonna get over the wall together. 05:23.224 --> 05:27.125 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we want to receive his strength because his spirit will always supply what we can't produce. 05:29.086 --> 05:32.227 [SPEAKER_00]: We've been talking about this week one, we said to lift our eyes and look at the promise. 05:33.347 --> 05:36.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Week two, we said it's time to get your foot in the water and get to moving. 05:36.948 --> 05:38.849 [SPEAKER_00]: But what happens when you've looked at the promise? 05:39.569 --> 05:41.030 [SPEAKER_00]: What happens when you've been moving? 05:41.330 --> 05:43.210 [SPEAKER_00]: And you still feel like there's not any progress. 05:44.331 --> 05:47.152 [SPEAKER_00]: There's something beyond your exhaustion. 05:48.112 --> 05:50.453 [SPEAKER_00]: There's something beyond whenever you feel weak. 05:51.270 --> 05:54.352 [SPEAKER_00]: There's something beyond whenever you don't see how it can be possible. 05:56.253 --> 05:59.594 [SPEAKER_00]: Your strength has limits, but his spirit doesn't. 06:01.955 --> 06:06.278 [SPEAKER_00]: I said, your strength might have limits, but his spirit does not have any limits. 06:07.018 --> 06:08.419 [SPEAKER_00]: And today we're going to take a breath. 06:08.459 --> 06:09.259 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use take a breath. 06:09.279 --> 06:10.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody take a breath real quick. 06:10.220 --> 06:10.900 [SPEAKER_00]: Just take a deep breath. 06:11.600 --> 06:11.780 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:11.800 --> 06:13.561 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not leading you in a guided breathing session. 06:13.581 --> 06:14.322 [SPEAKER_00]: Just take a deep breath. 06:14.342 --> 06:15.622 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 06:16.743 --> 06:17.483 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going first of all. 06:17.503 --> 06:18.344 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to want to let you do that. 06:18.604 --> 06:19.785 [SPEAKER_00]: If you take that breath, I'm going to tell you this. 06:19.905 --> 06:20.645 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be okay. 06:22.182 --> 06:24.204 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to make it, right? 06:24.884 --> 06:26.906 [SPEAKER_00]: If God promised it, you're going to make it. 06:27.706 --> 06:29.468 [SPEAKER_00]: Even when it's sometimes, I do this all the time. 06:29.488 --> 06:32.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I just have to stop, right? 06:32.350 --> 06:33.871 [SPEAKER_00]: I just got to take a breath and go, we're going to make it. 06:35.613 --> 06:37.314 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to make it, right? 06:37.334 --> 06:42.458 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever I'm facing today, whatever the enemy's phone at me, I just got to take a moment and I got to refocus. 06:43.079 --> 06:47.623 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got to know that greater is he who's in me than he that is in the world. 06:48.368 --> 06:51.191 [SPEAKER_00]: If God be for me, who can be against me? 06:51.651 --> 06:52.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we just gotta stop. 06:55.274 --> 06:55.514 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:56.495 --> 07:07.305 [SPEAKER_00]: And I talk about this frequently, but oftentimes we are so busy and we have so much outside noise that it's not, we talked about this a lot in our unneeded series a few months ago. 07:07.585 --> 07:09.447 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that God is not speaking. 07:11.008 --> 07:14.872 [SPEAKER_00]: It's that we have so much other noise going on that we can't hear him. 07:17.457 --> 07:17.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 07:17.717 --> 07:24.298 [SPEAKER_00]: I gave this analogy a while back when we were doing that series of, you ever, I'll give you a good example. 07:24.719 --> 07:33.060 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in my house before, and as I've been kind of alluded to earlier, Pastor Brandon, we have four kids from 17 to 6. 07:33.080 --> 07:34.621 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? 07:35.101 --> 07:35.741 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what that means? 07:36.421 --> 07:37.401 [SPEAKER_00]: Our house is loud. 07:39.742 --> 07:45.703 [SPEAKER_00]: And Eva Joy, our youngest, has two volumes, whisper or yell. 07:47.731 --> 07:48.671 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's no in between. 07:48.711 --> 07:51.793 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, they're what did you say or everybody in the block heard you? 07:52.753 --> 07:54.954 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's no in between, right? 07:55.074 --> 07:58.535 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember those, those one day, I had about, I have a walking pad, which I need to get back on. 07:58.715 --> 08:04.317 [SPEAKER_00]: But I have a walking pad, and I had the walking pad out in the living room, walking, and I had the TV going. 08:04.617 --> 08:06.898 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm that guy who, and it gets louder, I just turned the TV up. 08:07.679 --> 08:08.999 [SPEAKER_00]: Where's the minute God at in the room? 08:09.019 --> 08:09.819 [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all know what I'm talking about? 08:11.040 --> 08:16.682 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, he gets loud, we're just like, that's our polite way of saying, be quiet. 08:20.594 --> 08:27.918 [SPEAKER_00]: The walking pads going making noise, TV's going, kids are going, and my wife came in, and we was trying to say something to me, and I wasn't ignoring her. 08:28.098 --> 08:32.341 [SPEAKER_00]: I just literally couldn't hear her because I was distracted by all the other noise. 08:33.421 --> 08:41.106 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times we feel like we're weak, not because God isn't speaking strength, but because we have so much other noise that we can't clearly hear his voice. 08:41.686 --> 08:47.009 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is why sometimes you just gotta stop and pause and you just say, speak Lord, because your servant is listening right now. 08:47.369 --> 08:48.370 [SPEAKER_00]: Speak Lord for your servant. 08:49.151 --> 08:58.518 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to shut out all the other noise and all the podcasts and all the prognostication and all the craziness and all the wildness and everything else is going on. 08:58.598 --> 09:01.700 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to listen to you right now, not what everybody else has to say. 09:01.841 --> 09:04.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Because everybody else isn't going to get me through this, you are. 09:06.945 --> 09:10.627 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what happens in this scripture before we read it. 09:10.647 --> 09:11.468 [SPEAKER_00]: And I promise we are going to read it. 09:11.488 --> 09:13.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Before we read it, I want to give you a little bit of context. 09:17.107 --> 09:23.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Zechariah is speaking among the people of God who are rebuilding the temple after exile. 09:24.010 --> 09:27.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Zaruba Bull is the governor involved in rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. 09:28.012 --> 09:29.933 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the guy, his job. 09:30.713 --> 09:31.974 [SPEAKER_00]: The foundation is there. 09:31.994 --> 09:33.174 [SPEAKER_00]: They've started the project. 09:34.495 --> 09:36.336 [SPEAKER_00]: But the finished building is not. 09:37.616 --> 09:40.858 [SPEAKER_00]: It's something they started, but it's a mess. 09:42.228 --> 09:53.732 [SPEAKER_00]: It's something they started, but it's like, how is this ever, this, the task seems bigger than our ability, anybody been there before, where the task God's given you, look at what your ability, like, God, I think you got confused. 09:56.333 --> 09:57.733 [SPEAKER_00]: I think you called the wrong person. 09:58.373 --> 10:01.074 [SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to go to my neighbor's house and somehow you ended up in mine. 10:02.215 --> 10:07.596 [SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to go to the person that church that I see that I perceive as being spiritually strong, but for some reason, you called me. 10:12.549 --> 10:15.852 [SPEAKER_00]: God meets his servant with a word about his spirit. 10:16.372 --> 10:19.334 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's read this in Zechariah chapter four verse one. 10:19.354 --> 10:19.855 [SPEAKER_00]: It says this. 10:20.535 --> 10:25.759 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the angel of the Lord who talked with me came back and waken me as a man who is waken out of his sleep. 10:26.660 --> 10:28.201 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said to me, what do you see? 10:29.402 --> 10:33.845 [SPEAKER_00]: So I said, I'm looking and there's a lamp stand of solid gold with a bowlong top of it. 10:34.706 --> 10:38.389 [SPEAKER_00]: And on the stand, seven lamps was seven pipes to the seven lamps. 10:39.468 --> 10:44.630 [SPEAKER_00]: Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other and it's left. 10:47.111 --> 10:52.053 [SPEAKER_00]: So I answered and spoke to the angel Lord who talked with me saying, what are these, my Lord? 10:52.073 --> 10:54.314 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't love this. 10:54.334 --> 10:58.456 [SPEAKER_00]: Did the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, do you not know what these are? 11:00.817 --> 11:01.077 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 11:02.137 --> 11:03.318 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I asked the question. 11:04.618 --> 11:05.899 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, no, my Lord. 11:06.988 --> 11:10.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Verse six, so we answered and said to me, this is the word of the Lord, who's a rubable. 11:11.692 --> 11:18.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 11:19.579 --> 11:21.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Who are you, O great mountain? 11:21.981 --> 11:24.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Before's a rubable, you shall become a plain. 11:25.489 --> 11:31.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of grace, grace to it. 11:32.333 --> 11:36.675 [SPEAKER_00]: More over the word of the Lord came to me saying, the hands of this is really important. 11:36.935 --> 11:40.977 [SPEAKER_00]: The hands of the Rubable have laid the foundation of this temple. 11:41.597 --> 11:44.359 [SPEAKER_00]: His hands shall also finish it. 11:46.664 --> 11:47.364 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me. 11:48.164 --> 11:52.305 [SPEAKER_00]: The hands of Zerubable have laid the foundation of this temple. 11:52.885 --> 11:55.786 [SPEAKER_00]: His hands shall also finish it. 11:56.386 --> 11:58.787 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you will know that the Lord has sent me to you. 11:59.467 --> 12:04.748 [SPEAKER_00]: For he who despise the day of small things, for who has despise the day of small things. 12:05.148 --> 12:09.129 [SPEAKER_00]: For these seven were joists to see the plumb line and the hand of Zerubable. 12:09.569 --> 12:14.070 [SPEAKER_00]: These, they are the eyes of Lord, which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth. 12:15.352 --> 12:24.305 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hear me, God shows up and speaks to the very place where the assignment exceeds the ability of the builder. 12:25.403 --> 12:35.505 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the reasons that they're at this standstill and they're not progressing because the rubble in his own strength is not even capable of doing the job. 12:36.466 --> 12:43.647 [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever you feel incapable of accomplishing what you feel like God has put before you, you're in good company. 12:44.407 --> 12:47.068 [SPEAKER_00]: Because God does this through up all of scripture. 12:47.308 --> 12:50.069 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't call people because of their ability. 12:50.389 --> 12:53.149 [SPEAKER_00]: He calls people because they're simply faithful to say, 12:55.470 --> 13:19.782 [SPEAKER_00]: to believe that if God says it, then I'm just going to say yes, sir, if I'm going to put my complete and total faith in you, I am just trusting enough that Lord, if you said I could do it, even if I don't feel like I'm able, I understand that this isn't about me, this is about you, and whenever I meet the end of the world, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't have faith in you, I don't 13:21.263 --> 13:27.748 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that your grace is there to pick me up and to push me through into the fullness of everything that you have for me. 13:27.948 --> 13:37.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I feel like I'm at the end of what I can do is whenever you show up and you say grace, grace, grace, grace, and we're going to get across the finish line. 13:38.835 --> 13:45.980 [SPEAKER_00]: God doesn't call you because of the fact that you've got everything together and you have a plan and you have all the ability and you can figure it out. 13:49.983 --> 13:51.544 [SPEAKER_00]: So that you can't take the glory. 13:52.625 --> 13:54.447 [SPEAKER_00]: So that you can't take it for yourself. 13:55.027 --> 13:56.809 [SPEAKER_00]: But so that you can go, this wasn't because of me. 13:58.250 --> 13:59.531 [SPEAKER_00]: This was because of his grace. 13:59.551 --> 14:01.433 [SPEAKER_00]: This was because of his strength. 14:01.453 --> 14:03.775 [SPEAKER_00]: This was because he was mighty. 14:05.056 --> 14:08.639 [SPEAKER_00]: Serubable has this foundation beneath them, but he has a mountain in front of him. 14:11.161 --> 14:17.647 [SPEAKER_00]: His human strength is not going to guarantee that this thing ever gets finished, but then God puts his spirit into the conversation. 14:19.019 --> 14:24.404 [SPEAKER_00]: The decisive power to accomplish destiny and purpose will come from the Lord. 14:25.845 --> 14:28.948 [SPEAKER_00]: We keep a good inventory to bring to God of everything that we lack. 14:31.730 --> 14:34.513 [SPEAKER_00]: You ever had a conversation with God where you told them everything you didn't have. 14:37.075 --> 14:40.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And why you weren't able to do something because of all the places you lacked. 14:41.259 --> 14:44.482 [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, if you've done that before, you're also a good company because Moses did the same thing. 14:45.958 --> 14:49.421 [SPEAKER_00]: God, I can't speak, I don't, I don't have anything. 14:49.481 --> 14:50.441 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't speak well. 14:51.302 --> 14:53.984 [SPEAKER_00]: And the good news is this, God already knows your excuses. 14:55.966 --> 15:01.250 [SPEAKER_00]: And every time Moses gives God an excuse, you know what God has, an answer, right? 15:01.790 --> 15:08.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if God calls you, he's gonna supply you with everything that you need to accomplish the purpose. 15:08.795 --> 15:09.036 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 15:09.056 --> 15:10.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Because if he didn't, he would be cruel. 15:11.537 --> 15:14.400 [SPEAKER_00]: It would be cruel of God to call you and not supply you. 15:15.225 --> 15:22.468 [SPEAKER_00]: It would be cruel of God to say, you're going to do this, and then not make sure that you have everything that you need to accomplish exactly what you need to accomplish. 15:22.768 --> 15:27.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, a lot of times we would like the things quicker than he releases him, anybody been there before. 15:28.731 --> 15:33.313 [SPEAKER_00]: But in the end of the day, God will supply all of your needs. 15:34.574 --> 15:37.735 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times we make that strictly a financial description. 15:37.755 --> 15:39.356 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it is that God supplies your needs. 15:39.396 --> 15:40.717 [SPEAKER_00]: God's will make sure you can pay your bills. 15:40.757 --> 15:41.297 [SPEAKER_00]: And the church says, 15:42.317 --> 15:47.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Gobbles by all your needs according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus, but it is so much deeper than that. 15:48.179 --> 15:50.680 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have the need for strength, guess what God gives. 15:51.300 --> 15:51.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Strength. 15:52.121 --> 15:54.321 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have the need for joy, guess what God gives. 15:54.781 --> 15:55.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Joy. 15:55.402 --> 15:57.442 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a need of restoration, guess what he is. 15:57.582 --> 15:59.623 [SPEAKER_00]: A God of restoration. 15:59.923 --> 16:02.004 [SPEAKER_00]: God supplies every need. 16:02.024 --> 16:08.226 [SPEAKER_00]: He will supply all my needs according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 16:08.526 --> 16:10.047 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to be strong. 16:12.138 --> 16:17.442 [SPEAKER_00]: We have this idea that's largely been forged by our culture that the strongest are the winners. 16:17.682 --> 16:21.925 [SPEAKER_00]: But let me tell you what, the strongest people are not always necessarily the winners. 16:22.206 --> 16:32.293 [SPEAKER_00]: It's my fact, in the long game, the ones who are the winners who are the ones who realize our own weakness and are willing to lean on Jesus whenever we are weak and let him make a strong. 16:32.493 --> 16:36.997 [SPEAKER_00]: This why Scripture says, now let the weak say, I am strong. 16:37.217 --> 16:38.478 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't say that they're not weak. 16:40.647 --> 16:43.490 [SPEAKER_00]: It just says, let the weak say, I am strong, why? 16:43.790 --> 16:50.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Not because we're not physically weak, but because we know there's something backing us that is bigger and stronger than our weakness. 16:50.257 --> 16:53.460 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes you have to look at your insufficiency in the face. 16:53.740 --> 17:01.228 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to look at your inability in the face, and you have to be willing to say, listen, I'm still strong, because there is somebody who's got my back. 17:03.705 --> 17:09.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there is somebody who called me, because there is somebody who ordered for the order of this. 17:09.248 --> 17:12.791 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they ordered it, it isn't even in my responsibility. 17:14.132 --> 17:17.514 [SPEAKER_00]: I just have to be faithful and he's going to finish the task. 17:18.534 --> 17:20.876 [SPEAKER_00]: Your energy can run low without his power running out. 17:22.077 --> 17:22.297 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 17:23.097 --> 17:27.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Your weakness might tell the truth about your need, but it says nothing about his inability. 17:27.800 --> 17:28.801 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes is what we do. 17:28.821 --> 17:32.243 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at our weakness and then for some reason, we decide that makes God weak. 17:33.372 --> 17:35.953 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at our inability and then we say, God is not able. 17:36.353 --> 17:38.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because your weak doesn't mean he's weak. 17:39.034 --> 17:41.635 [SPEAKER_00]: Just because you feel unable doesn't mean that he is inable. 17:43.215 --> 17:44.416 [SPEAKER_00]: God is able. 17:44.576 --> 17:45.416 [SPEAKER_00]: God is strong. 17:45.436 --> 17:48.177 [SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing that changes that. 17:48.197 --> 17:52.238 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you mean, maybe make this personal for a minute. 17:53.499 --> 17:57.880 [SPEAKER_00]: You can love your family and still feel overwhelmed by what they need in the situation and what you're facing. 18:00.237 --> 18:03.798 [SPEAKER_00]: You can love serving other people and wonder where tomorrow's strength is going to come from. 18:06.338 --> 18:09.839 [SPEAKER_00]: You can love your spouse and still be trying to figure out the mess and how to put it back together. 18:11.799 --> 18:13.120 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking to somebody this morning. 18:14.460 --> 18:20.541 [SPEAKER_00]: You can love your kids and be doing everything that you know to do and still not understand why they're not serving God and why they're alive some mess and why they don't like you. 18:23.202 --> 18:23.442 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 18:26.238 --> 18:30.481 [SPEAKER_00]: But the good news is this, God doesn't shy away from difficult circumstances. 18:31.401 --> 18:34.403 [SPEAKER_00]: It's my fact God shines in the difficult circumstances. 18:35.544 --> 18:38.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever we reach the end of what we can do, he goes, I got this now. 18:39.767 --> 18:45.851 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that you realized you couldn't accomplish this because now that you've realized you can't accomplish it, guess what I'm going to do. 18:46.631 --> 18:47.392 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to see it through. 18:48.612 --> 18:50.514 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear me, you were never assigned to be the source. 18:51.794 --> 18:53.135 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the best thing you can do 18:57.291 --> 19:01.713 [SPEAKER_00]: The best thing you do is bring that need to God and ask him for help and stop trying to make it all happen in your own strength. 19:03.074 --> 19:05.435 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to convince God that you're strong enough. 19:07.216 --> 19:14.080 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you hear me, you don't have to convince God that you're strong enough because you can trust that he is strong enough, that he is powerful enough. 19:14.860 --> 19:25.746 [SPEAKER_00]: There is strength for weak people in the presence of a mighty God and our culture, our culture really despises this idea of weakness. 19:28.887 --> 19:29.928 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's got real quiet. 19:30.849 --> 19:35.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Of inability, of realizing that there's something we can't do. 19:37.554 --> 19:40.116 [SPEAKER_00]: That's viewed as like, ugh, gross. 19:41.217 --> 19:42.398 [SPEAKER_00]: Who wants to be that person? 19:43.379 --> 19:45.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Who wants to be the person that says, I don't have the strength. 19:47.102 --> 19:48.303 [SPEAKER_00]: That's just weakness. 19:49.424 --> 19:52.627 [SPEAKER_00]: No one, who can be the person that says, I don't have the ability, ugh. 19:54.028 --> 19:59.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Those people, we don't want to be one of those people, but the scriptures are full of those people. 20:01.831 --> 20:03.572 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that they didn't do powerful things. 20:04.272 --> 20:12.856 [SPEAKER_00]: It's that they had to come to a point where they realized that they were holy and fully incapable if God wasn't breathing on their lives. 20:12.916 --> 20:15.257 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to feel strong, let God breathe on your life. 20:15.898 --> 20:18.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't operate in your straight, let him breathe on your situation. 20:19.020 --> 20:19.920 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to see victory? 20:20.180 --> 20:25.803 [SPEAKER_00]: You stop trying to figure everything out and you let God breathe on it and you give it to him and you say, God, I don't know what else to do. 20:26.123 --> 20:30.785 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just gonna walk and go where you tell me to walk and I'm gonna swim whenever you jump and I'm gonna say, how high? 20:32.566 --> 20:33.607 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not gonna argue with you. 20:33.647 --> 20:34.707 [SPEAKER_00]: Even it doesn't make any sense. 20:36.648 --> 20:37.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 20:39.269 --> 20:40.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Superbowl, don't you understand something? 20:41.590 --> 20:44.592 [SPEAKER_00]: This word is not. 20:45.952 --> 20:47.733 [SPEAKER_00]: relieving's rubable of work. 20:48.834 --> 20:57.500 [SPEAKER_00]: There's still work he has to do, but he has, while he's still using his tools, he has to learn to depend on the Spirit. 20:58.621 --> 20:59.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, and that's us. 21:00.022 --> 21:05.686 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying don't do anything, but I'm saying you keep doing what you know to do and you depend on the Spirit. 21:06.560 --> 21:09.743 [SPEAKER_00]: You do what you know to do and you depend on God to breathe on it. 21:10.323 --> 21:16.588 [SPEAKER_00]: The hand that is doing the work can be weak while there's a power that's sustaining them that is mighty. 21:17.549 --> 21:22.413 [SPEAKER_00]: The hand that is doing the work can be weak but the power that's sustaining them can be mighty. 21:22.693 --> 21:26.296 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've got to get to this point where we say, I'm not being weak, but God is strong. 21:26.716 --> 21:27.797 [SPEAKER_00]: And He's going to sustain me. 21:31.719 --> 21:35.022 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to, because this is what we have a tendency to do. 21:35.482 --> 21:41.788 [SPEAKER_00]: We have a tendency, we've all probably done this, to turn our weakness into God can't use me. 21:43.249 --> 21:46.352 [SPEAKER_00]: To turn our inability into, I'm disqualified. 21:47.153 --> 21:53.718 [SPEAKER_00]: To turn the current condition of what we're looking at into, it's never gonna happen, so God go pick somebody else. 21:54.179 --> 21:59.043 [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't let your flesh determine what God has called you to do with his spirit. 22:00.505 --> 22:02.707 [SPEAKER_00]: If he called you, he called you. 22:03.247 --> 22:05.649 [SPEAKER_00]: If he purpest you, it's your purpose. 22:06.089 --> 22:10.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Confess your weakness and you can confess his faithfulness in the same breath. 22:11.032 --> 22:15.535 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't turn, I need his strength and to God can't use me, right? 22:16.156 --> 22:17.897 [SPEAKER_00]: The tired parent can pray again. 22:19.538 --> 22:22.020 [SPEAKER_00]: The discouraged servant can receive strength again. 22:23.060 --> 22:26.323 [SPEAKER_00]: The person who's been hiding can come into the light again. 22:27.219 --> 22:28.440 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a grace to return. 22:28.460 --> 22:29.781 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a courage to obey. 22:30.081 --> 22:34.683 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a strength found in going, God, I'm putting it in your hands. 22:37.545 --> 22:38.806 [SPEAKER_00]: What you think about making this personal? 22:39.166 --> 22:41.768 [SPEAKER_00]: Where in your life have you been trying to live on yesterday's strength? 22:43.829 --> 22:45.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Where have you been trying to depend upon your own hand? 22:47.071 --> 22:50.493 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want you this week to bring that into prayer. 22:52.238 --> 22:53.598 [SPEAKER_00]: to receive strength from him. 22:54.259 --> 23:06.062 [SPEAKER_00]: To maybe heaven forbid, talk to a brother or sister and Christ about an area where you need somebody to stand in agreement with prayer with you and stop acting like everything is just perfect. 23:08.023 --> 23:08.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 23:08.703 --> 23:16.625 [SPEAKER_00]: If the church is a family which we believe it is, one of the things that we are called to do in scripture is to bear one another's burdens. 23:17.846 --> 23:19.046 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't like doing that 23:23.267 --> 23:42.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we come to church on Sunday, if somebody asks us how we're doing, even if we feel like we're drowning, we have this idea that our response has to be, I'm blessed and highly favored, God's overcoming, and I've never had a problem, and I'm never going to see a problem again, bless God, because I'm a victor, and I'm going to overcome it, don't, don't, and listen, there's nothing wrong with a positive confession, and I want you to misunderstand me. 23:42.896 --> 23:45.857 [SPEAKER_00]: But there are times that you have to allow someone to bear your burden. 23:47.622 --> 23:50.543 [SPEAKER_00]: where you have to say, I need somebody to stand with me in prayer. 23:50.803 --> 23:52.863 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm facing a battle I've never faced before. 23:53.104 --> 23:54.844 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a negative confession. 23:55.204 --> 24:00.426 [SPEAKER_00]: That's putting into action faith and saying, I need some people who are gonna stand in the gap for me. 24:00.766 --> 24:08.208 [SPEAKER_00]: I need some people who are gonna get in the fox hole with me and be willing to fight because there's some things that I'm facing right now that seem overwhelming. 24:08.368 --> 24:13.989 [SPEAKER_00]: But I know God is called me and I know God is able and I know God is stronger and I know God is more powerful. 24:14.209 --> 24:16.650 [SPEAKER_00]: But I just need some people that are gonna have my back right now. 24:16.870 --> 24:24.533 [SPEAKER_00]: But listen to me, if nobody knows that you have a problem, it's gonna be difficult for people to have your back. 24:25.673 --> 24:32.916 [SPEAKER_00]: I promise you, this room is full of people who are willing to pick you up and walk you whenever you feel like you can't walk any further. 24:33.357 --> 24:37.678 [SPEAKER_00]: This room is full of people that are gonna intercede and pray for you whenever you're facing something. 24:37.878 --> 24:44.661 [SPEAKER_00]: But if we don't know what's going on, if your brothers and sisters don't know what's going on, how are we gonna pray for you? 24:46.556 --> 24:46.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me? 24:49.979 --> 24:50.699 [SPEAKER_00]: Bring it into prayer. 24:51.220 --> 24:52.621 [SPEAKER_00]: Let other people bear your burden. 24:54.743 --> 25:00.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Practically, maybe before you have the conversation that you know you need to have with somebody that things aren't right, ask for some patience. 25:02.829 --> 25:06.032 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask for courage and the word of the Lord before the decision, not after you make it. 25:10.415 --> 25:13.197 [SPEAKER_00]: Ask them to feel you with his love when all you feel is frustration. 25:14.378 --> 25:15.279 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody ever been there before? 25:15.439 --> 25:16.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Just felt frustration. 25:17.785 --> 25:20.446 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm the only one in the room who's ever just felt frustrated. 25:21.867 --> 25:25.508 [SPEAKER_00]: There's been, there's been times in my life where I'm like, I don't even have a good feeling right now. 25:25.929 --> 25:26.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't even find one. 25:27.129 --> 25:29.610 [SPEAKER_00]: The only feeling I find is frustrated. 25:29.630 --> 25:32.331 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you gotta do? 25:32.691 --> 25:32.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Pray. 25:32.992 --> 25:34.612 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you gotta do? 25:34.692 --> 25:35.953 [SPEAKER_00]: I know we all get tired of hearing these things. 25:36.373 --> 25:37.113 [SPEAKER_00]: Get tired of hearing about it. 25:37.133 --> 25:37.694 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you gotta do? 25:37.734 --> 25:37.974 [SPEAKER_00]: Pray. 25:37.994 --> 25:39.534 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what you gotta do? 25:39.754 --> 25:40.515 [SPEAKER_00]: Take it to the Lord. 25:41.478 --> 25:41.998 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I got to do? 25:42.238 --> 25:45.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen for his voice and stop trying to figure it out out in your own strength. 25:45.920 --> 25:50.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever God gives a word is a rubable, he doesn't go, is a rubable, you started it, figure it out. 25:52.563 --> 25:53.304 [SPEAKER_00]: You started it. 25:53.984 --> 25:57.206 [SPEAKER_00]: So now you're gonna, you made the mess, now you got to lie in it. 25:58.826 --> 25:59.707 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, no, is a rubable. 26:00.447 --> 26:01.768 [SPEAKER_00]: I gave you the word and guess what? 26:02.508 --> 26:03.369 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not by your might. 26:05.970 --> 26:06.870 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not by your power. 26:08.231 --> 26:09.392 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's by my spirit. 26:10.343 --> 26:18.327 [SPEAKER_00]: See, we even, I don't want to get too deep down this rabbit hole, theologically, but he says, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit. 26:19.187 --> 26:26.270 [SPEAKER_00]: The way we read that oftentimes is not by might, not by power, but by what we deem as righteous might and power. 26:26.990 --> 26:28.371 [SPEAKER_00]: But that is not what the scripture says. 26:29.491 --> 26:34.494 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, not by might and not by power, but by my spirit. 26:35.914 --> 26:37.155 [SPEAKER_00]: By my spirit. 26:38.423 --> 26:43.126 [SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't say, and I don't believe this, I believe the Spirit does empower us. 26:43.847 --> 26:52.874 [SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of times when we think of Spirit empowerment, we immediately go to a carnal power, to a carnal strength, but that's not what it's saying. 26:53.834 --> 26:56.756 [SPEAKER_00]: It's saying that he's gonna give you exactly what you need to do the job. 26:57.577 --> 27:01.360 [SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes the tool that you've been using is not the tool that works, and that's why it doesn't work for you. 27:02.085 --> 27:11.693 [SPEAKER_00]: So quit looking for a God-touched version of the tool that you've been using and maybe do what he says rather than what you instinctively want to do, because I want to be honest with you, what's time our human instinct is wrong. 27:13.214 --> 27:20.060 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why it doesn't work, because our human instinct is broken, and we have to lean on his spirit rather than our instinct. 27:20.340 --> 27:26.105 [SPEAKER_00]: We want God to annoy our instinct, our way, our plans, and he's going, no, no, no, get on my page. 27:27.253 --> 27:32.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Get on my instinct, not by my power, but by my spirit. 27:33.616 --> 27:37.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by my mind, not by power, but by my spirit. 27:37.639 --> 27:40.360 [SPEAKER_00]: You might have felt finished, but his power is not exhausted. 27:41.040 --> 27:42.601 [SPEAKER_00]: His mercy is not exhausted. 27:42.921 --> 27:45.123 [SPEAKER_00]: His spirit is certainly not exhausted. 27:46.363 --> 27:47.764 [SPEAKER_00]: We might feel weak, but he's still mighty. 27:49.105 --> 27:53.207 [SPEAKER_00]: And at the end of the day, I want you to understand this that your mountain is not his match. 27:54.743 --> 28:02.284 [SPEAKER_00]: And I really want to hone in on this for a few minutes, because verse seven, the Lord addresses the great mountain, the great obstacle before it's a rubable. 28:03.285 --> 28:06.145 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a picture of this imposing obstacle. 28:08.326 --> 28:14.367 [SPEAKER_00]: This obstacle that stands in the way, a mountain, this great mountain, anybody thought, anybody ever had a great mountain in your life? 28:15.807 --> 28:17.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, somebody, a few honest people. 28:17.527 --> 28:21.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody ever had a great mountain in your life before where you just look at it and you go, nope. 28:23.831 --> 28:24.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 28:24.871 --> 28:31.573 [SPEAKER_00]: You may have looked at them for years, but enough, not happening, can't do it impossible. 28:34.234 --> 28:38.256 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some things in the natural eye look at, and I'm like, nope, right? 28:38.276 --> 28:44.418 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so much just even like, we were watching a show the other day, uh, past somewhere I know watching a show the other day, and those people skydiving. 28:49.179 --> 28:49.559 [SPEAKER_00]: It's right. 28:50.420 --> 28:51.680 [SPEAKER_00]: I looked at her, I said, nope, 28:55.174 --> 28:57.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not, couldn't pay me enough money. 28:58.537 --> 29:00.798 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you jump out of a perfectly good airplane? 29:02.900 --> 29:10.946 [SPEAKER_00]: Only the way I'm jumping out of an airplane, if it's going down, and if it's going down, I still might be like, well, Lord, and I'm just going to pray for protection and safety. 29:19.563 --> 29:25.147 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, though a thousand fall at my side, it's 10,000 at my right hand, and it shall not come, not my dual, but I ain't jumping out of this plane. 29:28.770 --> 29:28.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 29:30.091 --> 29:30.291 [SPEAKER_00]: Nope. 29:31.151 --> 29:32.432 [SPEAKER_00]: But we do that, we do that with other things. 29:32.452 --> 29:34.634 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at our family situation, we go, no, impossible. 29:36.555 --> 29:43.460 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at the diagnosis in our body, and we go, ah, we look at our own internal struggles that we have with things, you go, ah, nope. 29:44.341 --> 29:46.823 [SPEAKER_00]: We look at the person we don't want to forgive, or like, absolutely not. 29:49.347 --> 29:51.328 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll jump out of an airplane before I'm all forgive. 29:56.809 --> 29:58.170 [SPEAKER_00]: We all have a list of things. 29:58.290 --> 30:01.310 [SPEAKER_00]: If I ask you for your list, you could probably give it to me right now with the things you look at. 30:01.330 --> 30:03.511 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, not happening. 30:04.271 --> 30:06.012 [SPEAKER_00]: No way to big. 30:06.232 --> 30:07.392 [SPEAKER_00]: The mountains too great. 30:07.752 --> 30:08.552 [SPEAKER_00]: It ain't gonna happen. 30:08.893 --> 30:13.954 [SPEAKER_00]: But God announces this that the mountain is not gonna prevent the work that he's promised. 30:14.954 --> 30:17.095 [SPEAKER_00]: God calls the mountain a future plane. 30:18.203 --> 30:21.420 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, what appears so great right now is going to be lay and flat. 30:22.183 --> 30:25.265 [SPEAKER_00]: What appears so mighty right now is not going to be there anymore. 30:25.565 --> 30:31.129 [SPEAKER_00]: The obstacle that's between you and purpose, I'm going to make it flat so you can go through into purpose and destiny. 30:31.409 --> 30:32.630 [SPEAKER_00]: So the good news is this. 30:32.890 --> 30:40.416 [SPEAKER_00]: The New Testament very plainly tells us that the things that are in the Old Testament are written there for our example. 30:40.656 --> 30:46.620 [SPEAKER_00]: So we know that this word wasn't necessarily to us, but I do believe this, that it is about us. 30:46.940 --> 30:50.542 [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever you're facing and whatever is going on in your life right now, 30:51.343 --> 30:56.945 [SPEAKER_00]: mountain that you're looking at, that the same word that God gave, God gave Zechariah to get his roomable. 30:57.225 --> 30:59.266 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh great mountain, you're going to become a plane. 30:59.326 --> 30:59.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Guess what? 31:00.006 --> 31:04.588 [SPEAKER_00]: The word over your life today when you look at that mountain is this, the mountain will become a plane. 31:04.908 --> 31:08.309 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing that becomes strong and mighty, God's going to bring it down and make it flat. 31:08.510 --> 31:10.970 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't say he's a roomable climb over the mountain. 31:11.171 --> 31:12.631 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, watch what I'm going to do. 31:12.811 --> 31:14.832 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing that looks mighty, I'm going to flatten it. 31:15.052 --> 31:17.313 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing that looks impossible, I'm gonna bring it down. 31:17.553 --> 31:21.494 [SPEAKER_00]: The thing that seems like you'll never be able to be overcome, this time it'll be a problem. 31:22.455 --> 31:24.135 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's horrible, not because of you. 31:25.676 --> 31:30.777 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by your might, not by your power, but by my spirit. 31:32.598 --> 31:33.658 [SPEAKER_00]: I can go around this room. 31:35.419 --> 31:39.581 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can tell you, person after person, that have seen God do great things. 31:39.621 --> 31:41.021 [SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, it hasn't been by their might. 31:42.301 --> 31:43.462 [SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't been by their power. 31:44.543 --> 31:46.825 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's been by his spirit that God has done the work. 31:47.865 --> 31:49.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle showed me a picture this week. 31:49.967 --> 31:52.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle showed us a picture one day this week, and I didn't even recognize him. 31:53.490 --> 31:54.571 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, who is that man? 31:54.831 --> 31:55.571 [SPEAKER_00]: How long ago is that picture? 31:56.632 --> 31:58.734 [SPEAKER_00]: About three years ago, people were about three years ago. 31:58.914 --> 32:00.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't even look like the same person, by might. 32:02.917 --> 32:03.677 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by power. 32:05.239 --> 32:08.121 [SPEAKER_00]: But by the spirit of God that he's done a work in his life. 32:09.322 --> 32:09.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 32:10.861 --> 32:13.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I could go around the room, I could go around the whole room. 32:13.582 --> 32:22.685 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bailey's weren't supposed to have Trinity, not by Mike, not by power, but by his spirit. 32:24.806 --> 32:33.009 [SPEAKER_00]: And now there's not just a Trinity, but there's a Trinity too, not by Mike. 32:34.250 --> 32:37.991 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by power, but by his spirit, right? 32:38.451 --> 32:40.572 [SPEAKER_00]: Tories should be dead, but not by might. 32:41.852 --> 32:44.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by power, but by his spirit. 32:46.654 --> 32:52.215 [SPEAKER_00]: We were told that our oldest son would be small and undersized and have all sorts of problems. 32:53.876 --> 32:56.897 [SPEAKER_00]: He's pushing six foot tall in ways like two, 10. 32:56.957 --> 33:00.378 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by might, not by power. 33:01.834 --> 33:05.695 [SPEAKER_00]: But by his spirit, I can go and tell you about marriages that shouldn't be here today. 33:06.355 --> 33:09.556 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not being necessarily because they've just got the best marriage counseling. 33:09.576 --> 33:19.418 [SPEAKER_00]: Although I believe in that, and we counsel people and see victory, but at the end of the day, it's not by might, and it's not by power, but it's by his spirit. 33:19.678 --> 33:27.420 [SPEAKER_00]: What appears so big and what feels impossible, the word over your life today is this, who are you, O Great Mountain? 33:28.060 --> 33:34.504 [SPEAKER_00]: the God will not make you a plain, and that I will not cross over into purpose and cross over into destiny. 33:34.764 --> 33:47.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Not because of my strength, but because of his spirit that does the work and brings me through into victory, into triumph, into destiny, into purpose, into restoration, into fulfillment, into healing, into peace. 33:48.972 --> 33:49.633 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by might. 33:51.594 --> 33:54.375 [SPEAKER_00]: Not by power, by his spirit. 33:55.336 --> 33:56.777 [SPEAKER_00]: God calls the mountain a future 33:57.977 --> 34:02.579 [SPEAKER_00]: The builder sees what stands in the way, but God declares what his power is gonna accomplish. 34:03.060 --> 34:05.401 [SPEAKER_00]: We are really good at telling God how big the mountain is. 34:07.362 --> 34:07.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 34:08.082 --> 34:09.623 [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, that's this thing wrong with that. 34:09.743 --> 34:13.485 [SPEAKER_00]: There's one thing wrong with crying out to God about your situation, right? 34:13.525 --> 34:19.748 [SPEAKER_00]: God's not like, well, you're telling me about it, so I don't even wanna hear it anymore, so I'm just gonna go somewhere else. 34:21.949 --> 34:22.170 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 34:22.470 --> 34:24.491 [SPEAKER_00]: But what we really need to improve in, 34:27.306 --> 34:28.707 [SPEAKER_00]: cliche but it's true. 34:29.748 --> 34:41.777 [SPEAKER_00]: What we need to improve in is this and a certain point we have to stop telling God and everybody else how big the mountain is and we have to start telling the mountain how big our God is. 34:42.978 --> 34:50.044 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to stop talking about all of the situations and how it's insurmountable and we've got to go back and we've got to say who are you great mountain? 34:52.906 --> 34:54.107 [SPEAKER_00]: I see a mountain right now. 34:55.349 --> 34:57.129 [SPEAKER_00]: But with prophetic eyes, I see a plane. 34:58.270 --> 35:04.131 [SPEAKER_00]: I might see an unmovable situation right now, but I'm telling you that what I see is victory and what I see is triumph. 35:05.031 --> 35:15.693 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, this is what happens, and I don't have time to go to the whole count, but this is what happens whenever the 12 spies are sent in to look at Cainan and tin come back with a negative report. 35:16.294 --> 35:22.275 [SPEAKER_00]: But scripture tells us about Joshua and Caleb, specifically tells us this, that there's a different spirit on them. 35:23.463 --> 35:31.591 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a different spirit on them that there's the more spirits he brought we walk and he could literally can be can be translated as a prophetic spirit. 35:32.212 --> 35:34.134 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a different spirit on them. 35:34.374 --> 35:37.558 [SPEAKER_00]: So when everybody else sees giants, they see dead giants. 35:38.979 --> 35:42.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Where everybody else sees an obstacle, right? 35:43.179 --> 35:43.980 [SPEAKER_00]: They see freedom. 35:44.000 --> 35:46.101 [SPEAKER_00]: But they say it's a land that flows with milk and honey. 35:46.121 --> 35:47.982 [SPEAKER_00]: What you see by that means there's cows and beehives. 35:48.702 --> 35:53.185 [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't even see cows to be milked and beehives to be robbed. 35:53.746 --> 35:55.887 [SPEAKER_00]: They see like Willy Wonka's factory. 35:58.394 --> 36:00.095 [SPEAKER_00]: where there's abundant provision. 36:00.835 --> 36:02.275 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't see the problem. 36:02.515 --> 36:04.476 [SPEAKER_00]: They see what God is gonna bring them into. 36:04.836 --> 36:10.478 [SPEAKER_00]: We've gotta get to a point where sure, bring your problem to God, absolutely, bring it to Him. 36:10.678 --> 36:13.940 [SPEAKER_00]: And once you bring it to Him and He says, that great mountain is gonna be made low. 36:13.960 --> 36:14.920 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta see different. 36:15.694 --> 36:20.355 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to start seeing different, and you have to start seeing the problem and the mountain made flat. 36:20.995 --> 36:26.256 [SPEAKER_00]: Do not give the obstacle God's authority, because we wanna make the mountain God. 36:26.916 --> 36:28.176 [SPEAKER_00]: The mountain isn't God. 36:28.816 --> 36:31.877 [SPEAKER_00]: God is God, and the mountain will be made flat. 36:32.117 --> 36:33.697 [SPEAKER_00]: The obstacle will be moved. 36:34.377 --> 36:37.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever it is you're facing right now, it is not final. 36:38.898 --> 36:40.498 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're gonna have to climb over the mountain. 36:41.858 --> 36:43.279 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not gonna have to go around the mountain. 36:49.137 --> 36:50.677 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what it's like to have those mountains. 36:50.697 --> 36:51.558 [SPEAKER_00]: You wake up thinking about it. 36:51.578 --> 36:52.438 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to bed thinking about it. 36:52.478 --> 36:53.438 [SPEAKER_00]: You think about it throughout the day. 36:53.878 --> 36:54.598 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been there before. 36:55.859 --> 36:56.539 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been there before. 36:57.839 --> 36:58.819 [SPEAKER_00]: Multiple times in my life. 36:58.839 --> 36:59.199 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been there. 36:59.219 --> 36:59.900 [SPEAKER_00]: We're like the mountain. 37:00.540 --> 37:01.080 [SPEAKER_00]: How in the world? 37:01.700 --> 37:03.480 [SPEAKER_00]: And you think about it and try to calculate it all day. 37:04.401 --> 37:04.581 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 37:05.521 --> 37:06.681 [SPEAKER_00]: You try to negotiate with it. 37:07.701 --> 37:08.442 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm talking about? 37:09.362 --> 37:10.302 [SPEAKER_00]: You try to figure out a plan. 37:12.130 --> 37:13.910 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that you're that's wrong or bad. 37:14.251 --> 37:16.811 [SPEAKER_00]: All those instincts, none of those instincts are bad, they're not evil. 37:16.831 --> 37:18.952 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that's demonic, okay? 37:19.592 --> 37:20.572 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want you to miss hear me. 37:20.592 --> 37:25.493 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying you're thwarting God's plan, but I'm saying there are some things you can't overcome in your own strength. 37:27.334 --> 37:30.134 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some things you can't overcome in your own strength. 37:30.154 --> 37:33.555 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have to get to a place where you go, this might be difficult, but I'm not abandoned. 37:34.835 --> 37:38.056 [SPEAKER_00]: This is beyond me, but I belong to the God of the beyond. 37:39.002 --> 37:41.104 [SPEAKER_00]: I belong to the God who sees beyond the mountain. 37:41.484 --> 37:43.566 [SPEAKER_00]: I might can only see the mountain, but he sees beyond it. 37:44.346 --> 37:46.768 [SPEAKER_00]: I might can only see the situation, but he sees beyond it. 37:47.208 --> 37:51.732 [SPEAKER_00]: The challenge might be in front of me, but the Lord is within me. 37:51.892 --> 37:56.195 [SPEAKER_00]: It might be insurmountable to me, but it is not insurmountable to God. 37:56.535 --> 37:59.918 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to let his word speak louder. 38:00.698 --> 38:05.142 [SPEAKER_00]: You can describe the mountain in extraordinary detail, but you can't describe his promise. 38:06.718 --> 38:10.060 [SPEAKER_00]: And what if we talked about his promise more than we talked about how big the mountains? 38:11.641 --> 38:18.865 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to remind yourself how strong your God is, because confidence has a foundation. 38:20.546 --> 38:21.467 [SPEAKER_00]: What is that foundation? 38:21.847 --> 38:23.048 [SPEAKER_00]: The word of the Lord. 38:23.988 --> 38:26.670 [SPEAKER_00]: Our foundation is His word. 38:27.451 --> 38:32.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Our confidence has to rest in His character and in His word. 38:37.028 --> 38:39.269 [SPEAKER_00]: at the beginning of this series. 38:39.909 --> 38:46.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do we have such a great confidence in him because his ways are higher than our ways? 38:48.233 --> 38:56.136 [SPEAKER_00]: And his thoughts than our thoughts that he's better than we are, that he's more faithful than we are, right? 38:56.576 --> 39:00.638 [SPEAKER_00]: Him, his thoughts being higher doesn't mean he put them out and they're to test you. 39:02.099 --> 39:04.620 [SPEAKER_00]: It means that he will be faithful to bring you through it. 39:05.783 --> 39:08.686 [SPEAKER_00]: It means that He will be faithful to His promise till the end. 39:09.366 --> 39:15.272 [SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what you're facing, you have not faced an obstacle or a battle that God can't be victorious in. 39:15.292 --> 39:22.158 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand this. 39:23.739 --> 39:27.322 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes whenever we feel like that mountain is not moving as fast as we want it to. 39:28.844 --> 39:31.166 [SPEAKER_00]: God is still there to sustain us in the waiting. 39:32.902 --> 39:33.122 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 39:33.662 --> 39:35.203 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you like, I've heard these messages before. 39:35.243 --> 39:36.283 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired of looking at the mountain. 39:36.303 --> 39:37.504 [SPEAKER_00]: God's still there to sustain you. 39:38.984 --> 39:40.065 [SPEAKER_00]: God's gonna be with you. 39:40.465 --> 39:41.365 [SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't left you. 39:41.405 --> 39:42.566 [SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't forsaken you. 39:43.186 --> 39:45.067 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's gonna bring it through. 39:45.867 --> 39:47.968 [SPEAKER_00]: You can believe boldly. 39:49.085 --> 39:57.288 [SPEAKER_00]: because his spirit is real, his heart is real, and his intention for you is actually good. 39:58.128 --> 40:02.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Half the battle for the modern believer is believing that God's intention for us is actually good. 40:04.131 --> 40:07.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just mentally acquiescing to that, but actually believing it in our hearts. 40:08.232 --> 40:11.433 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes we face a setback and we're like, well, God just must have done that. 40:12.394 --> 40:15.595 [SPEAKER_00]: No, so that I'm saying it's just happened in the world we live in, but God's plan for you is good. 40:18.984 --> 40:22.707 [SPEAKER_00]: The obstacle might can describe the challenge, but it can't define the limits of our God. 40:23.868 --> 40:24.449 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want you to hear me. 40:24.809 --> 40:26.891 [SPEAKER_00]: The mountain can't decide what God gets to do. 40:29.013 --> 40:31.975 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord is the Lord of the last word. 40:33.136 --> 40:35.958 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the Alpha and He's the Omega. 40:36.639 --> 40:43.385 [SPEAKER_00]: He gave you the word in the situation at the start, and He will have the last, God's not gonna let the enemy have the last word. 40:44.666 --> 40:46.007 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna have the last word. 40:48.475 --> 40:50.036 [SPEAKER_00]: and he'll give you the strength to finish well. 40:52.558 --> 40:53.278 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to close with this. 40:56.781 --> 41:05.507 [SPEAKER_00]: In verse 7, it returns to his roomable, bringing out the capstone, and the work that once looked impossible, what that means is that it's now reached its completion. 41:06.367 --> 41:09.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And what rises over that finished work, shouts of grace. 41:10.557 --> 41:23.340 [SPEAKER_00]: What rises over the finished works that God's promised, grace, grace, picture in the future after they're rebuilding the last stone in the hands of the man who wants face to melt. 41:24.940 --> 41:27.020 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it says, a rubble will lay the capstone. 41:28.181 --> 41:31.401 [SPEAKER_00]: The one who stared at the mountain is now putting the finishing touch on it. 41:32.482 --> 41:34.162 [SPEAKER_00]: And what accompanies it, shouts of grace. 41:35.208 --> 41:36.809 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace, what does that mean? 41:37.209 --> 41:44.172 [SPEAKER_00]: That means whenever the Lord is putting the finishing touches on what He's promised you, you're going to, and scripture is very clear. 41:44.693 --> 41:50.155 [SPEAKER_00]: It says, the rivables hand started this, and the rivables hand is going to finish this. 41:51.196 --> 41:55.898 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be clear, what God gave you to start, I believe He's going to let you complete. 41:57.095 --> 42:00.816 [SPEAKER_00]: What God said you're gonna do, you're gonna see it through the completion. 42:01.036 --> 42:03.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes, he can feel like that's a long way off. 42:03.677 --> 42:05.857 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, God gives, God gives rubble this work. 42:06.057 --> 42:07.798 [SPEAKER_00]: Is the rubble I told you to start it? 42:08.038 --> 42:09.879 [SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, I'm gonna make sure that you finish it. 42:10.199 --> 42:13.399 [SPEAKER_00]: And whenever the capstone is being laid, grace, grace. 42:13.520 --> 42:13.740 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 42:13.820 --> 42:16.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's not your strength that did it. 42:17.301 --> 42:18.081 [SPEAKER_00]: It's his spirit. 42:18.881 --> 42:20.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace, grace. 42:21.122 --> 42:24.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever, that means it's whatever God accomplishes through my life, guess who gets the glory. 42:26.643 --> 42:28.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever is done through me, guess who gets to glory? 42:29.424 --> 42:29.945 [SPEAKER_00]: He does. 42:30.385 --> 42:31.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Because it was never about me. 42:31.606 --> 42:32.386 [SPEAKER_00]: It was always about him. 42:32.446 --> 42:33.526 [SPEAKER_00]: It was always about his purpose. 42:33.546 --> 42:35.568 [SPEAKER_00]: It's always about his plants. 42:35.688 --> 42:38.549 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace met me when I couldn't save myself. 42:39.049 --> 42:42.071 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace met me when I didn't have the ability anymore. 42:42.371 --> 42:45.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace showed up whenever I was ready to throw in the towel and quit. 42:45.833 --> 42:52.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Grace met me whenever I thought it was an impossible thing to go through the mountain and grace showed up and made the mountain flat. 42:54.180 --> 42:56.221 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, God, you've already had enough grace in your story. 42:56.281 --> 42:56.581 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not right. 42:56.601 --> 42:58.542 [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably everybody in this room if you're born again. 42:58.823 --> 43:01.424 [SPEAKER_00]: God should have already shown you enough grace to give him praise. 43:02.705 --> 43:06.927 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm telling you on the other side of what he's doing, there's going to be a praise in your mouth. 43:08.588 --> 43:10.149 [SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be a shout on your lips. 43:11.349 --> 43:12.210 [SPEAKER_00]: We needed help. 43:13.103 --> 43:16.164 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted God and the Lord has been faithful. 43:16.824 --> 43:17.545 [SPEAKER_00]: We needed help. 43:18.085 --> 43:20.846 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted God and God has been faithful. 43:21.106 --> 43:22.386 [SPEAKER_00]: And now he's gonna get the glory. 43:22.406 --> 43:23.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And why do we have this confidence? 43:23.887 --> 43:25.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Because our confidence has a name. 43:27.408 --> 43:30.890 [SPEAKER_00]: Our confidence has a name and his name is Jesus. 43:31.890 --> 43:35.411 [SPEAKER_00]: Our confidence has a name and his name is Jesus. 43:35.511 --> 43:36.912 [SPEAKER_00]: And nothing is beyond him. 43:37.532 --> 43:39.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, death could hold him. 43:40.427 --> 43:45.390 [SPEAKER_00]: And if death couldn't defeat him, what makes you think that your situation is going to defeat him? 43:47.031 --> 43:51.033 [SPEAKER_00]: If the grave couldn't hold him, why do you think your mountain is going to hold him? 43:52.154 --> 43:54.615 [SPEAKER_00]: He has all victory and all authority. 43:54.915 --> 43:57.237 [SPEAKER_00]: And the part, listen, but I quote this all the time. 43:57.477 --> 44:01.920 [SPEAKER_00]: But the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is in you. 44:02.989 --> 44:22.031 [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll quicken your moral body, that means this, the same spirit that caused him to come out of the grave is the same spirit that's going to make your mountain flat, the same spirit that brought him out of the grave is the same spirit that's going to put your family back together, the same spirit that defeated the power of death is the same spirit that's going to overcome every question you have. 44:22.231 --> 44:27.755 [SPEAKER_00]: The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is the same spirit that's gonna bring your prodigal home. 44:27.995 --> 44:32.538 [SPEAKER_00]: The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is the same spirit that's gonna sustain you. 44:32.779 --> 44:43.906 [SPEAKER_00]: The same spirit that raised Jesus out of the grave and defeated death and hell forever is the same spirit that is in you and it is the same spirit that looked at the mountain as as be made flat. 44:45.968 --> 44:47.129 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing you're facing. 44:47.929 --> 44:50.271 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing that you're facing that he can't sustain you. 44:51.664 --> 44:53.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for downloading this podcast. 44:53.706 --> 44:57.528 [SPEAKER_00]: We trusted this message has blessed and encouraged and identified you. 44:57.989 --> 45:01.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you subscribe so you never 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