Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. In the final week of our series, there is a cloud. God led me to a scripture in Numbers, chapter nine.
I want to read this for you.
It may be unfamiliar, but hopefully it will build your faith. And that is my prayer every time I stand in the pulpit to preach, that God would use me to build your faith, because it is your faith that enables you to experience God's presence in your life. And so as we read this scripture, I want you to just kind of like get a flow for it.
It's unusual scripture.
I don't know that I ever heard a sermon on it before, but I was looking at how God gave his people this cloud. They were coming out of Egyptian slavery and they were trying to get to the Promised Land, but they were experiencing a delay.
You ever had one of those?
Huh? You ever been stuck somewhere, stuck in something. So that's where they were and it was mostly their fault.
But you can't really blame them.
They were trying to figure out who is this God and who are we? And all they had ever known was all they had ever known. And so God gives them a gift in the midst of this. And that's what I want to share with you about today. Numbers chapter nine, verse fifteen. I'm calling this sermon. All systems go, All systems go, you know, like when they launch a rocket ship. Y'all saw hidden figures, and so we're getting ready for what God is doing in our lives.
Everybody say, there is a cloud on.
The day the tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law was set up.
I need to say something right here.
Every situation is a setup if God is in it. Here they are in the wilderness, but God is still establishing his presence. Just want to point that out. So they set up this tabernacle, which was a portable house or the presence and the glory of God. And it says that there was a cloud that covered it from evening till morning. The cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire That's how it continued to be. The cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire. Whenever the cloud
lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out. Wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. At the Lord's command, the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the clouds stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out. Sometimes, I say sometimes sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days. At
the Lord's command, they would in camp. Then at his command they would set out. Now, what's the common denominator, whether they're coming or going.
They are doing it at the Lord's command.
And the whole reason they're in this wilderness is because they would not go into a place that God said he had promised to them. So now they've got to learn some lessons, and God is using this cloud as a personal trainer.
Amen.
Well, I'm excited to appreciate about this today because it means that God is developing their faith even though they were disobedient. But he doesn't give up on them. Instead, he uses the opportunity to guide them in a place where he didn't want them to wander. But even in their wandering, he was teaching them how to walk with him. Thank you Jesus. So they were walking cloud to go
and listen to this verse twenty one. Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out, whether by day or by night, whether by day or by night, whether in the good times are the bad times, whether I'm clear or whether I'm confused, whether I did it right or whether I did it wrong. God was right there night morning, wilderness promised land. Wherever you find yourself, there he is. And so when the cloud would go, they would go,
whether by day or by night. Whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle.
For two days or a month or a year, the.
Israelites would remain in the camp and not set out. But when it lifted, they would not set out. And by this point in the passage, you're thinking.
We got it.
They followed the cloud, But we don't got it. You know, we need things to be reiterated.
For us.
I mean, how many times have you done the same dumb thing expecting a different result in your life thus far? And you're only twelve. Let me read one more verse, verse twenty three. At the lord's command, they encamped, and at the lord's command.
They set out.
They obeyed the Lord's order in accordance with his command through Moses, all systems go, Holly, and I just celebrate. Get ready to applug big. This's a big one. We just celebrated fifteen years of marriage. Some of y'all look like you're too good to clap for my fifteen years. Maybe you've been doing it thirty years, thirty five years, but to me, fifteen it's above the average, already beat the odds.
Feels kind of good.
And I attribute our marital success to a couple of different factors.
I will list them for you in this order.
God, Holly, that's neck and neck too, they're right there together. And the third one is not me. The third one is this is going to sound strange when I say it, the invention of the GPS system, the Global Positioning system. If it had not been for the GPS system, because some of our worst fire somebody over here must be like me. Some of our worst fights are in the car because I have no sense of direction and she is supposed to have one. It was part of an
unspoken prenuptial agreement. I grew up in Monk's Corner, South Carolina. She grew up in Miami, Florida. She's supposed to know her way around places. I told her I was country when I married her, I told we talked about this, and so we used to travel. And I know this is prehistoric and primitive, and I'm not relating to the young people anymore when I.
Say stuff like this.
But when we used to print our directions off a map quest, what what our marriage? Our marriage was in trouble on those map Quest directions, because now we got it down. I mean, one Christmas, she brought me a Tom Tom. Y'all don't remember nothing about a Tom Tom. Now you got it on your phone when you got Siri and everything like that. But we used to boy, we used to talk about things in the car because she would tell me win the term, but not win anyway.
What I'm saying is we made it. Somebody shot they made it, and we made it because of the GPS.
That's because for me.
It's a real thing I cannot overemphasize to you. And I'm gonna stay here for a minute because I do have a point to all of this, and it really has nothing to.
Do with GPS.
It's really a spiritual point. I have found out in my life, both as a driver and as a person that I am not really good at finding my way around by myself, even as a pastor. I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I've never done this before. I told Elijah that the other day. He was arguing with me about something. He wanted to listen to something lo yochty or something, and I said, you can't because I don't know his clean versions. And he said, well, you
listen to worse stuff when you were growing up. And I said, but I have a parental right of hypocrisy. Shut up and do this because I've never done this before. We're gonna do it the way I want to do it. He did. He said Snoop was just as bad. His album was called, and he said the name of the album from nineteen ninety three. So we had a discussion. Some of y'all are too safe to come to this worship experience.
I'm gonna tell you, but thank you for coming.
And so we were talking.
I was like, I never did this before, and it.
Kind of gave me compassion, even for my dad. You know, he didn't have a dad.
I had a dad.
My dad's dad ended his own life and my dad was nine. So one day I was going off about my dad to my mom.
You know, he doesn't get it, and he and this, he and that, and.
Probably some of my gripes were legitimate, but she said back to me something.
She said, he never saw it done.
He's trying to stay, but he never saw it. It's like being a tour guide you've never been to and really, raising teenagers in today's world is like being a tour guide in a town that changes every ten minutes. Huh. These have to go to the gas station to buy a magazine with pornographic material. Now they can get it on the same device they can read their Bible on, So like, how do you navigate that? So I've come to the conclusion in life that I need a leader.
I need a leader. God knows that about me. He knew that about his children. He knew they were frustrated, he knew they were confused, and he knew that they were following a man, Moses.
Moses had.
Moses had had tried to talk God out of Jusey, and yet he's the one God wanted. And so.
God gave them a gift. He gave I'm kind of.
Like it's a primitive GPS system.
Did you see it? In number chapter nine?
God was doing the cloud way before Google. Okay, and so this cloud. Ever say there is a cloud. He put this cloud in the wilderness for three purposes. Please take notes, because I believe there are three things that God wants to do in your life right now.
And I'm speaking to.
The person who has been in a state of confusion. I wanted you to know that there is a cloud over your life, whatever wilderness you find yourself in today, whether as a parent or whether as a pre pubescent.
You know, I could be speaking.
To a pastor listening to this on a podcast, but I want you to know that there is a cloud, and God sent the cloud to guide you, to guide you. It's actually be better than that because God.
Did not just say he would guide you.
He said in Psalm number forty six that he would be our guide. That's better because if God gave me guidance. I know something about myself. I'm not good at following it. So when Holly and I talk about directions, she'll say, you know, you take a left and then there's a fruit stand, and then there's a cow, and then there's a thing, and then there's a building, and then there's a store, and then there's.
A porch swing.
It's a red porch swing, got American flag draped over. She knows all these details and stuff that I don't recognize. And then she'll look at me and she see my eyes glazing over, and she said, you know what, I'll just give you the address, and that saved our marriage. I'm serious, I have no This is how bad it is. When I was a teenager, I would not go get my driver's license. Not because I didn't want to drive. I could not find my way around Monk's Corner. What
is there to find in Monk's Corner? There's a walmart and there's a high school. I couldn't fight. It was so about my dad. My dad had to make me go get my driver's license. He walked in the house one Wednesday. It was his day off. It was summertime. I had turned fifteen months ago, but I wouldn't get every time he would ask me, you want to go get your license? Because I'm sickadrete in your own. Every time he would ask me, do I want to go get my license? I would tell him no. It wasn't
that I was scared of driving. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't find my way around, so I just kept putting it off. In one Wednesday, he walked in. It was his day off, it was my day off. I worked at. I had a summer job at. My first job was at Petrest Crematory and Cremation Service. Okay, I started from the bottom for real. Don't look at me like I was glamorous. And I was in my guitar my room, playing my guitar. He walked in and said, today's the day we're going to get your license.
I'm sick of this.
And I wasn't scared of the driving test. I should have been the woman that was sitting next to me for the driving test.
She was so mean.
The car kept cutting off every time I try to start. My dad's jimmy. Y'all remember the jimmy. Every time I would try to start every time my dad's car was such a piece of crap. When you try to start the car and put it in reverse, it would cut off. And so I was trying to back out of the parking lot of the DMV. I couldn't get the car out of the parking lot. And every time I put
in a reverse that would cut off. And the woman let me do it three times, and she says, Sir, in the history of my experience of one hundred and thirty five years administering these tests, I've never done this. But get out the car. Your test is over. You failed in the parking lot. My dad came running across the parking lot. He's sweating. My dad's a big old guy, sweating, waving his arms. Give him another chance, ma'am, give him another chance. I forgot to tell him this car's got
some issues. You can't have the air conditioning on when you have it in reverse. Y'all didn't grow up driving these kind of cars. I know you got to BMW on your sixteenth think that I.
Had to naked.
Where's he going with this? I think a lot of believers have been given license to live in the fullness of the promise of God. But I don't trust my sense of direction, and so God said, I see you.
You look like a sheep.
I see you.
Turning left instead of right. So I'm going to guide you.
The Lord is my shepherd, the Lord. That's a good thing. He's my shepherd because I am bad. I mean, I am bad at finding my way. So he said that he would make me lie down in green pastures. Wait, man, I don't want anybody make me do anything. Live a little while, and you will want someone bigger than you, wiser than you, stronger than you. You'll stop trying to shrink God down to a formula that you can manipulate, and you will come to the point where you'll say, God,
have your way in my life. Make me lie down in green pastors. David said, he leads me beside still waters, in that cool He restores my soul. He leadeth me in paths.
Of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yeave, though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death. Wait a minute, we were just talking about still waters and paths of righteousness.
How did we end up in this valley of the shadow of death?
But sometimes the paths of righteousness must pass through the valley of the shadow of death so that you can go through situations that look like seem like and feel like they are going to kill you. But you get to the other side and you see a table that has spread of provision in the presence of your enemies. If there is one thing I believe, it's that goodness and mercy happened following me all the days of my life. I'm loud. That is one thing that keeps me from
going crazy. I know God is guiding my life. I really have come to the point where I believe that I can't always tell you where, but I know who The Lord is my shepherd, and I found out that he will use circumstances that he did not create. He will even use confusion to guide me to confidence. So the children of I'll prove this to you. Okay, they come to the Red Sea. They're confused, but God put a cloud here.
It is before them. This is Exitus thirteen twenty one.
They're not in the wilderness yet, they're not out of Egypt yet.
They're in between. They're fifteen years old, they're about to get their driver's license.
They don't know where to go. So look what God does. By day, the Lord said a pillar, and it went ahead of them, and it is a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Because God will not always look the same way in every situation, and sometimes you miss him because you are looking for Him to appear in the form of a method. And so you come to something, I'm gonna turn my back. So this just can between you and God. Wave your hand. If you're going through something right now that you do
not fully understand. Right, it's called being alive. So now they're coming to this transition point and they don't know where to go because they can't go back to Egypt, but they don't know how to get across the sea. So God gives them a cloud. And watch what the scripture says, go back to twenty one. I want to make sure you don't miss this. Sometimes I go too fast on it and we miss stuff. He sent them to cloud. He went before them to guide them. God's
positioning system. So wherever I go, God went before me. That sounds so simple, but thousands of you don't believe that yet. You believe that the good things that are happening to you are the result of the guidance of God. But I'm telling you that God was using the chariots of Egypt and the whip of Pharaoh to make sure.
That they kept moving.
So God is driving them from behind and leading them as he goes before them, say out loud, God is my guide. Say it like the devil might have been pushing you around lately.
Let him know.
God is my guide. And even if it's the devil pushing, God is the one who is pulling me into the purpose. All things work together for the good.
So I need a guide.
And so the cloud went before them and it showed them the next step to take.
In the cloud, it led them.
I need the Lord to lead me. I need him to lead me to speak these sermons. We're all in trouble if he doesn't lead me to sermons. I heard somebody say something in church one time. They were talking about being led by the Holy Spirit. Okay, and you've probably heard that before that God led me sometimes Christians, you said, to say the craziest stuff all religions do. Some religions will commit acts of terror and say that
they were led by God to do that. One thing I heard early they were taking an offering in church. I grew up in church, but it wasn't personal for me then, you know, like it was a religion, It wasn't a relationship. But when my relationship with God became real, because only you can decide that. They were taking an offering one day and the person taken the offering, they said this phrase. They said, just give today as you
feel led. And I was only like seventeen years old, but I knew, well, that's not going to work as I feel led, because I mean, let's just apply that feel led to other areas of life. Okay, if I ate what I feel led to eat, there would not be enough denim in these United States of America to
circumvent my waistline. If I exercised when I feel led to exercise, it would be once in January, in once in May when I thought about looking good in a bathing suit, and then I would decide I already got my wife who cares, and I would never hit the jem if I did it when I fell. Okay, try this. Tell your kids when you feel led to go to school. Try that with your employee. I wasn't feeling led to What if you went to work when you felt led to work? But we will subjugate our relationship with God
to our feelings. Now, notice this, The cloud didn't ask the children of Israel do you feel like moving today? Would this be a good time? And did I catch you at a bad time? And God doesn't consult their mood see if they feel like moving. I don't have to feel it. Not being led by my feelings. I'm led by my priorities. You missed a whole lot just now.
It wasn't a real shouty statement, but it is the difference between mature faith that will get you through the wilderness and the kind of faith that goes up and down and flows like this. And as you going all around to all different people all time, God sent them the cloud to teach them to prioritize.
Everybody say prioritize.
Some people came to church today because they felt like it. Other people came to church today because this is the day the Lord has made. I set this time aside. And the less I felt like it, the more I knew I needed to do it, because I am not watch just sakh first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. That is a statement of priority, not a statement of feeling, not a statement of preference. If I did everything I felt like doing. I would have a prison ministry from
inside the prison. If I preached when I felt like preaching, you would hear three sermons a year from me. I didn't preach because I felt like it, although I did today. I feel like preaching today. I can't explain it. A little extra caffeine or work a wonder in your soul. But even if I didn't feel it, it's eleven thirty and here come the people, and the Word of God is here, and somebody needs it. It's preaching to it's praise in time. I don't lift my hands because I
feel like lifting my hands. I did it because he's worthy, He's worth. How many worship then because he's worthy? To seven people say, I do it because he's worthy, because he's worthy, Because he's worthy. That's why I seek him, because he's worthy. That's why I offer him the honor, because he's worthy. That's why I'm staying where he told me to stay, because he's worthy. Stay married fifteen years being nice when you feel led to be nice, just
stay married fifteen minutes. If it's your priority, God is my priority. One way of saying this, He's at the center of my life. Now, think about that. The tabernacle is in the wilderness. It's a portable tabernacle. Many of our locations at Elevation Church still meet in rented facilities. Means we have awesome volunteers come early, stay, lay, set up, tear down.
Some of y'all didn't come to Elevation during.
That season, and those of you who did are thanking God that those days are over. But that's where you find out who you're really faithful. People are hauling those trailers in Winston Salem and in and out, and we have portable locations.
Well, we didn't start that. God started that.
And he not only told them how to build the tabernacle when Moses went up and sought them for six days in the cloud. And after seven days in the cloud, God spoken, some of you leave too soon before God speaks. When it's cloudy, you quit listening. But that's where God speaks in the valley in the cloud. I feel God's presence in this place. So he told him how to build the tabernacle. But he also told him where to
put it. He told him, make sure you set it up in the middle of the camp so that everybody has to face it. So that all of the tribes standing under their different banners have to face the same center.
Right, So when I.
Look at my life, I realized that not only is God leading me, but he is leading me from the center. The cloud would hover above the tabernacle, and the tabernacle would stay in the middle. So watch this. This is so powerful I should demonstrate it. Come here, Jordan, come here, Buck, Come here, JJ. Wherever they went, you can be the tabernacle and you can be the cloud. I am making this up as I go. All right, but wherever they went,
this had to stay in the middle. We are so paralyzed about where God is positioning us, and so we go does God want me to take this job or that job? And we become really flaky, really flaky. We won't commit that this, or we're moving all around. Oh look, did God want me to marry him? You married him twenty seven years ago. That is a done deal. Now, what you got to do is keep the presence of God in the middle yet, and so when God moves move you.
Just gotta come on.
Buck. You're helping me with this, doing a terrible job at it right now. But so think about that now, listen, listen of all the ways God could have led them. This is a strange scenario. Strange how many would agree this is strange because if you want the people to get up and go, put them on a schedule. That's just some parenting advice. By the way, you decide to have a baby, LJ. Put them on a schedule. Yet God does the exact opposite of what every parenting book tells you to do.
He wants to teach his children something.
So the Bible says that sometimes the cloud would stay for like two days, and then it would move, so they had to move because they had to keep thinking in the middle. And then it would stop and they would stop. Sometimes the cloud would stay for a year. I want you to think about this. Just stay right there, so somebody has to stay.
Up all night. It's millions of.
People because we just read the Bible and we think, oh, wouldn't it be cool if God would give me you a cloud to show me which job to take or which school to put my kids. No, it wouldn't be cool. It would be horribly inconvenient because you'd always be thinking we're gonna remove in today and then just about the time you would unpack in the spot you were in it, start moving again.
Stop and the.
Craze's the hist thing about this whole scenario that is not mentioned in the text, but is implied in the text. They weren't really going anywhere. If you know your Bible, come on, you know your Bible, John, and then at least you should you're an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Buck's just a security guy. No, he's actually a great example because I met him in college. I liked him because he was a wrestler, a successful wrestler.
He won a stag championship. He fought in MMA tournaments.
Yeah he did, Yeah he did. They were illegal, unsanctioned tournaments with interns at Elevation Church. But listen to me, now, that's not my point.
I met him on an internship.
The whole time I was at the internship, I was complaining I didn't see Buck until eight years later.
Was it eight years later? Something like that?
He said, seven seven years later. I appreciate you correcting the story just that much, which really didn't make a difference at all other than the slow down.
The momentum of my point.
I appreciate that Buck, I didn't know when I was doing the internship that he and I would travel.
We've been to six continents together preaching the gospel.
Now.
Sometimes he's an illustration.
Sometimes he's making sure that everything is set so I can minister. But God had to take me all the way through an internship that I didn't even want to be at. We went to who HOAt China together, We got chased through Chinese nightclubs together, sketchy stuff before social media, thank God. But God was guiding us for where he knew he was taking us. But he had to take us the long way for something that he wanted us
to pick up along the way. Because if I hadn't done that intern if I had gone to Charleston Southern University, there would not have been a Holly boy knot. Oh yeah, her last name was worse than Ferdick. When I met her, she got an upgrade on Ferdick, and that is no small feet. But I couldn't go to Charleston Southern. They had to take my scholarship away because I had to go to Tigerville, South Carolina, in the mountains, in the woods, where boys and girls are not even allowed to look
at each other. Across the street because it's a Baptist school. I had to go to the Baptist school to get a point, not girl, because God knew he was calling us just I'm trying to say, then, if you keep God in the center, you don't happen no where you're going. Just keep them, keep the God in the middle. Sit down before I. He's guiding me, and he is teaching me to prioritize His presence, and he will not do it in a way that I can predict, because my
tendency is to turn God into a formula. And you know as well as I do that if God had moved that cloud at seven pm every Friday, they would have become more dependent on the system than the source. And He loves you too much to let your faith become a formula. So he's gonna can I say this, I need permission, even though you don't know what I'm
gonna say. I need you to trust my integrity. God is using your confusion and I can hear it right now because on First Corinthians fourteen on Facebook, they're gonna put First Corinthians fourteen on There's people that sit around on Facebook and they have nothing better to do. They're gonna say on this clip, they're going to say, but God is not the author of confusion.
I read the same verse.
It's talking about having an orderly worship experience, and so it says God is.
Not the author of confusion.
In other words, don't everybody try to talk at one time, or nobody's going to hear what anybody's saying. That is the context of that verse. He's not the author of confusion. That doesn't mean he won't use confusion.
You know what, I believe the only path to true confidence.
Is through confusion, because only after you've been through the confusion, and after you've been through the valley, can you say the Lord is my shepherd. He told them, I'm gonna put you in that wilderness for forty years, but while you're there, I'm going to train you to trust me. I'm going to train you. See, we are so destination minded. But the cloud didn't move because they needed a new destination study. This sometime they got man of wherever they
set up camp. The only reason that God moved them around was so that they wouldn't get stuck in one system. God said, I don't want you to get stuck in a system that will short circuit your faith. So I'm going to allow life to throw you off balance from time to time, and I'm gonna put you in some situations where you don't feel certain because you can't have your certainty and God's confidence.
So I sent the cloud to guide you.
I sent the cloud to teach you to prioritize my presence. The cloud was above the tabernacle. How many No, not only is he central, but he is above. God has exalted Jesus and given him the name that is above. Every name that at the name of Jesus. Every knee, every sickness, every disease, every worry, every attack, every fear, every knee will pow, every tone will confess. I feel God guiding me right now. I feel these words going right into your heart. Jesus Christ. It's just Lord, to
the glory of God the Father. And notice the scripture says it was a pillar of cloud. A pillar is an image of stability. How can you have stability if what you're following keeps moving great? So, so Jesus is getting ready to be taken up. Okay, he's resurrected from the dead. I'm fast forwarding like a couple thousand years. And he looks at his disciples and he knows, like the children of Israel, they have never been this way before. He's got a mission for them. He said, you will
receive power. Somebody shall power, because God's presence is God's power. It's not an accessory, it's not a bonus feature. God's presence is God's power. Up until this time, they have been relying on God's presence in the visible form of Jesus Christ. But you got to watch this. Something shifts and just before Jesus leaves the earth, he's already taken the keys to death, hell and the grave. He's already paid the price for the sin that stood and kept
record against us. He's already nailed your condemnation to the cross. He's already carried your shame. He's already born your burden. He's already taken your sorrow. And now he's standing and he's resurrected, and he's about to ascend into heaven to be seated at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. From whence he shall come to judge to quicken the dead. And he looks at his disciples and says, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and
you will be my witnesses. Watch this in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, to the ends. I am sending you into an unstable world with a sore foundation, and you will be my witnesses.
In Jerus Summari at the ends of the earth and watched this.
And when he had said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and the cloud hid him from their sight, and they couldn't see him anymore. But they didn't need to see him anymore, because when he sent his spirit they got a GPS. Somebody shot, I got a GPS. I don't have to stay lost and lonely and confused and uncertain any more. Jesus said, today is the day all systems go. Today's the day you get your driver's license. And you will receive power when the
Spirit comes on you. Stabilize, stabilize. The cloud kept going to show them that wherever they would go, God would be in their midst. I'm declearing this over your life today, that there is a cloud in every wilderness. There is a cloud. It's not an external thing. You keep asking for God to give you a sign on a text messager a sign to show up in the sky or something. But the sign is within you. On the endside, he will not leave you or forsake you. Who am I
preaching to today? I really need to know because God said, I want to guide you, I want to teach you to prioritize, and I want to stabilize you. So I'm bringing you into some unfamiliar terrain because I don't want you to depend on your circumstance. I want you to depend on my spirit. So I gave you a GPS guide, prioritize, stabilize. Somebody's shot. I got a GPS. Come on, this is this is better. This is better than knowing where you're going,
to know who is with you as you go. If you believe God is with you, end up on your feet right now. If you believe he's guiding you, if you believe He's taking you somewhere, Come on. I need you to praise God in this moment like you've got Holy spirit power. Come on, praise Him in this moment. God inhabits the praises of his people. He dwells in the midst of praise. He dwells in the midst of hollelujah, he dwells stuff.
It's our God.
This will be the last day of your life that you will live without a guide. I didn't say you wouldn't go through another valley.
But today, today we make a declaration. God is guiding my life.
You know what that means that everything that comes against me has to work for me before it's all said and done. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. Come on, touch twelve people tell him. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. He's guiding me, providing for me.
The spirit of the Lord is in this place. And where the spirit is there is freedom. You have been so scared, so.
Nervous because I don't know where to go. And the Lord is my shepherd, and there is a cloud.
I'll tell you what we need to do. We need to establish a connection with Heaven.
You know, the Bible says his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through him.
So everything you need, God.
Chris, that's a thought of this is in the cloud, you know. And to get what's in the cloud, I need a connection with the source. Lift your hands, come on, lift your hands. Father, We honor you, We glorify you, We bless your name, We honor your presence. Come on, open your mouth, give and praise, We magnify, exult and extol God of all. We exult to now. High up mom uncertainty, high about fear, Come high about depression, high about the spat. We'll lift our hands in your press,
re steal your people. God, Thank you for your far come sin that your mom you we re see.
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