All Those Times You Didn’t See

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 you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have a lot of visitors today. How many of you travel to visit with us today?

God bless you? Well, that's the whole church.

I could just preach what I've preached last week because it's all visitors.

Today.

We've got about one hundred of our evam, heart and soul from.

All over the world. Thank God for y'all. It's been mentioned, but I didn't get down on it yet.

They're baptizing today over six hundred people at all of our locations.

You said five hundred, but I heard six. Might be seven by the time God gets through. Yeah, look at that. That's going to be amazing.

And there's still time for you to sign up as well. If you believe that God is calling you to be baptized today, be an awesome step of.

Faith for you to take.

Go down in that water, leave your shame, leave your sin, leave.

It all behind.

The mercy of God is why, and he can make you a new creation. Well, today, just like any other day, I'm going to open my Bible and share with you, but it is not just like any other day. This is a special week. This is the final week of one of my.

Favorite series that I ever preached before in my life.

The series was called Called and we're finishing it up today.

We've talked about so many.

Bible characters, and y'all can bring it down a little bit, thank you. We've talked about Abraham and Moses, and Martha and Simon, Simon, Peter, and we talked about who else do y'all remember Jacob, Martha, Saul, the artist formerly known as Saul who became Paul the Great Apostle.

And today we only have one.

Person left to talk about. And one thing that I think is kind of cool about this series. You've kind of gotten an overview of a lot of the different Bible stories, and through that I might put out a book called called One.

Day just with these stories, because it was based.

Around everybody in scripture that God called their name, but he called it twice, so Martha Martha, Moses, Moses, Abraham, Abraham, and today we're going to do the final person, Samuel Samuel. Now my challenge is, I don't know how much of this story you already know. And if you turn your Bible to First Samuel, see there's a whole book called Samuel. So I can't share everything, but there's actually a sequel to Second Samuel. So I asked one of our church members,

That's Daniel.

Yeah, but so touch your neighbor and say, we got a lot of catching up to do.

You're a little behind, but I love that man.

I don't ever want you to feel intimidated come into this church because you don't.

Know all these Hebrew and Greek words.

I don't know him either, and I paid to go to school to learn him. I have to look him up every week to preach them to you. And you know, the Christian life isn't about how much of the Bible stories you can quote or how spiritual you can look, but it's just about trusting.

God from this stay forward in your life with all that you have. And so doesn't matter to me if you know this story or not.

I actually think if you don't know the story, you can hear it fresh sometimes and it puts you in an advantage. So today I want to take us to one verse to start out, and its first Samuel chapter three, verse ten, for the final sermon in my called series. And I'm so glad you made it out for this today the word of the Lord says for Samuel three

How many want the Lord to come?

And the Lord came and stood calling as at other times Samuel Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for your servant heres, And today I want to talk to you. Here's my subject about all those times you didn't see, all those times you didn't see Father opened your word that we might behold your wonder and your glory, and perhaps show us something today that would be so specific that we would not miss your presence in this moment. We thank you for being God and every season of our life.

You are going to speak in Jesus' name.

Amen, you may be seated, And why don't y'all bring out my screen today so I can do a little teach you preachy, preachy teachee any country music fans in the house. I heard a country songwriter say something the other day that I thought was an appropriate opening for our sermon time together. All right, So he's a Grammy winning country songwriter. He's written many number one hits. He's about fifty seven years old.

He's been at it a long time.

And he was in an interview and he started explaining to the younger songwriter who was interviewing him why he still cuts his own grass with a push lawnmower. He said, I still cut my own grass. I've won all these Grammys and Billboard Awards and CMA Awards, but I still cut my own grass with a push mower.

I go out there and I sweat and I cut the grass.

And my neighbor said to me one day, why do you still cut your own grass. Surely you can afford somebody to do that for you and do something more valuable with your time, like write another hit song or win another Grammy.

And he said, no, I definitely could.

But the reason that I still cut my grass myself is because it is one of the only, if not the only, thing left in my life that I can do and see an immediate.

Return on with my eyes.

It's one of the only things left, if not the only thing left in my life that the grass can look bad one minute and better the next. Songwriting isn't like that, he said. I might write a song today and five years later somebody records it on their album. And that's assuming it even gets recorded. Cutting the grass, I can cut a row right now and smell it and see it and bask in it. Every Man who likes to cut your own grass, say I did that.

I did that.

That grass might grow back in three days, but for the next three days, let the devil know, and let those grass blades know. You can't grow back yet, because I just cut you down.

I did that.

You know, in songwriting, the most successful songwriters of all time who end up in the Songwriting Hall of Fame don't get every song that they wrote recorded. That means they'll go in and write a song the best they can and it will never ever even see the light of day. In fact, keep this statistic in your mind the next time you hear a song on the radio. That for the professional songwriter who writes a song every day Monday through Friday, that's about two hundred songs per year.

That's special, and we can see the result of it.

So he said, the way I deal with this failure rate is I cut my grass. I don't have to wait five years for the grass to go down. I cut it, I look at it. I cut another row, I look at it. It is one of the only things left in my life that has a visible and immediate return. So no matter how many grammys I win, I'm always going to cut my own grass. Why are you talking about this, Pastor Steven, Because I wish serving God was like cutting grass.

That's what I wish.

I wish serving God preaching sermons was like cutting grass. I wish I could watch sin go down lower while I was preaching to you today. You know how powerful that would be if I could see your shame going down like grass, just cutting it down, just mowing down all of the bad mindsets as you're cutting grass. Don't some of you wish that parenting and raising kids was

At first.

Most of the efforts that you make in your life that are the most valuable will be the least visible at first. This is contradictory to every cultural impulse that we have that encourages us to post every time we work out. If you post every time you work out as proof that you work out, I don't think you're working out right, because the proof that you work out should be you. When you don't work out, we will

In his reign, he would go from Dan de.

Birsheba yearly and seasonally in a circuit in order to administer justice. See, in the time before the kings, they had judges who were appointed by God seasonally. In other words, they were not necessarily going to be there for long, but they were given a job to do to bring the people back to God in the way that they could as deliverers. Samuel was the last judge, and he anointed the first king. So we begin to see that his life is a very transitional moment in the nation.

Samuel.

Now, reading this on the surface is a really good story about a man who hears God's voice and responds. On the surface of this story, we see Samuel as somebody who really gets it right the first time.

You can't do much better than that.

And the Lord came and stood calling, as at other times, Samuel Samuel, and Samuel said, speak for your servant.

Heres. By the way.

Interesting side note, the name Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for.

Heard by God, heard by God.

The reason he was named Samuel was because his mother had trouble getting pregnant, and when she finally got her baby, she named him Samuel.

Because she felt like God heard.

Me finally, so she named him as an answer to her prayer, and he becomes the answer to the entire nation's prayer for somebody who can bring the presence of God back.

The thing that.

You're praying about is bigger than the prayer that you're praying. She's praying on one level for a baby, and God is thinking on another level to raise up a prophet.

She's praying that she might have a son.

But God is preparing to send someone to annoying a king. And it all starts right here when the Lord came and stood calling As at other times.

Samuel, Samuel.

What got my attention about this was how it said the Lord was calling As at other times. And I don't know if you noticed that, but when it says he called As at other times, it made me want to back up and see what was happening in the rest of First Samuel chapter three. If you go all the way back to the beginning of First Samuel chapter three, you get a pretty great story that I want to share with you today about what was happening at the

The Bible says, now the boy Samuel.

Was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli.

What does that mean.

It means that he was in a place where a man was in charge, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days, there was no frequent vision. But he was doing what he was supposed to do, even though the place where he was was not reflective of the values that he believed.

The Bible says that Eli was a.

Very bad priest who had two sons named Hofney and Phineas, who were doing all kinds of things in the temple that they shouldn't have done. Not only were they taking the sacrifices that the people brought for themselves, but they would sleep with some of the women who came to volunteer at the temple and Eli.

Their father was more concerned.

About his sons being happy than he was about God being holy.

Wow.

He was more concerned about not ruffling them than he was about being right with God.

And all of this is.

Happening in the temple, which is, of course, not the temple that would later be built.

It was a tabernacle.

It was a portable structure that was set up until the temple would be built. But Samuel was there ministering to the Lord as a boy in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days. There was no frequent vision.

So notice this, and you have.

To notice this that before Samuel went on to do all of the great things that we would see him do, he was doing stuff that nobody saw in a situation that he didn't want to be in. And because he was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli, God was able to honor his service, even though the situation he was in was not the situation he would have chosen to serve in. I'm saying this just in case you hate your job. I'm saying this just in

They wanted their pastor gone.

And when he said it to me, a part of me thought that could be cool. And they start saying all this nice stuff like when you preach, it reminds us of Billy Graham. Wow, talk about an exaggeration, talk about a sales job. But it sounded kind of good, and I listened to him for about twenty minutes, and I was driving home, and when I got home, Holly was home.

From teaching school.

She was teaching seventh grade at the time, and she was waiting on the porch. And we were newlyweds, you know, second year of marriage, third year of marriage.

Something like that, and still working through all of this.

And as soon as I saw her on the porch, the Lord spoke to my and said, you go on that porch, and you make a vow with your wife right now that you will not do anything that will dishonor this pastor. You do not skip any of the steps that I want to use to develop you. You do not sow anything that you do not want to later reap in your life in this situation.

And I'm going to tell you this.

I think the first important ceremony that I did with Holly was our wedding day. And I think the second most important ceremony I did with her was on our porch that day, where I decided that as we are planted in this church, we will make a decision that while we were here, even if we hate it here in certain ways, even if there are people trying to get in our heads and get in our ears and tell us that if we just angle and position like this, I think that was our moment with God where God

I got that one right.

Can you imagine if I would have got stuck in scheming. Can you imagine if I had gotten stuck in trying to steal something that wasn't even mine. Can you imagine if I would have let that affect me. And I'm not saying this because I don't think that you should lead this church. I'm saying this because I wouldn't have been able to start this church if I had listened to what they said.

So when I look at the camera and say, welcome.

Our EPAM all around the world, I am very well aware that the ministry that we have today is largely connected to all those times you didn't see where we could have done something that we shouldn't have done and didn't do all that from verse one and Samuel isn't even in the lines then, yet he's just ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli and the word of the Lord.

Watch this was rare in those days, you're like, not anymore. We got the word of God.

I got it on my phone, I got it in I got it in English, I got it in Spanish.

I'm learning a little Spanish.

Little what's it called dua lipa. I know I'm trying to make you critage. I know it's dual lingo abby.

But the Bible says the word of the Lord.

Was rare in those days, not because he wasn't willing to speak, but because he couldn't find people who were willing to listen. When God finds one person who will listen to him, really listen to him, watch what he can do. The boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days. There was no frequent vision, you know, in those times, they didn't have great Bible

And I think it's rare that we really do.

Not because of the lack of access to God's word, but because of the lack of attention that we give to it.

It has never been easier to have the Bible in your ear.

Right Like right now, I could be listening to for Samuel three and you wouldn't even know it, but.

It was in your other ear. I had that on noised cancelation. That was really weird experience.

Just now I couldn't hear anything, Isn't it like that? Got the word of God in one ear, the world in the n the word of God in one ear, and a constant feeding frenzy on my phone in the other. And this isn't a message about put down your phone, but I just want to point out some similarities.

That the word of the Lord was rare and there was.

No frequent vision. Now, look, the Bible says at that time. At that time, Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

And then the Lord called.

To Samuel wait a minute. Verse ten says he called to Samuel as at other times. So watch this for everybody who was frustrated because you feel like you didn't get it right the first time. Watch what God is willing to do to call Samuel. The Lord called Samuel and said and he said.

Here I am and ran to Eli, who.

Was the priest, who was his authority, who's the only one he knew to go to, and said, here, I am for you.

Called me. But Eli said, I didn't call you. Light out again. Go back to Ben.

You need some melotonin, boy, get some sleep, It says. The lamp had not yet gone out, so this is in the middle of the night. So when laid out and the Lord called again Samuel, and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, here, I am for you. Called me, But he said, I didn't call my son light out again. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. So what I see here in this passage, if we could bring it together for a moment, is a man who.

Would go on to preach God's word to the entire nation.

First Samuel, for to one put it on the screen says that Samuel's word in the fullness of time, for Samuel four one came to all Israel.

Look at that, in the.

Fullness of time, Samuel's word came to all Israel.

The entire nation heard his words.

He spoke for God, He spoke of righteousness, he spoke of repentance.

The entire nation heard his words.

But before the nation could hear him, he had to learn to hear God. And there are some things in your life right now that before God can do externally what you want to see him do externally, there are some things that you have to learn internally so that you can hear God, so that they can hear you, so that you can get it on the inside so that God can do it on the outside. There are some things that we are waiting for God to manage, and God is waiting for.

Us to mature.

Because the Bible says that he was just a boy. He was a called boy, but just a boy. He was an anointed boy, but just a boy. He was a boy brought from a barren womb. But he was just a boy. But he was more than a boy because he was a boy that God had appointed to be in a place that God had assigned him to do.

A task that.

God had appointed at a time that God had designated. Now in the meantime, he does not yet know the Lord. But that does not mean that he will not know the Lord.

And I want to.

Say this to everybody who's discouraged right now about your not yet situations.

In your life.

You know, I'm not really yet able to deal with this. I'm not really yet able to flow with this. I'm not really yet certain about this. It ought to encourage you to know that the one who spoke the word of God to the entire nation started out not yet knowing the Lord.

And watch this.

He didn't yet know the lad Lord, even though he lived in the church. He did not yet know the Lord, even though he served in the tabernacle, for the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. How many times will God talk to somebody that he wants to call.

As many times as it takes. I thought you'd be happy about that. I thought you'd celebrate.

That, because sometimes I don't get.

It right the first time.

Sometimes my first response is not my best version. Sometimes I don't show up like I wanted to. And now I find myself in regret. But it makes me feel good to know that even if I get on the.

Wrong ship, God will put a fish outside the wrong ship. That's Jonah, not Daniel or Samuel. But I'm gonna preach.

About all these people today because it really doesn't matter how fast you can run. It matters how much faster God is to get to you and bring you back. I'm calling somebody back today. I'm calling somebody back today. Back to your right mind, back to your first love, back to your original intended design, back to it. Because God said, I'll call you back, I'll call you back. I was trying to get your attention, but you didn't listen.

I'll call you back.

I was trying to get your attention, but you ran to drugs to stuff the hole that you should have filled with me. But I'll call you back because where you've been putting those drugs, I.

Have a deposit that I want to put And.

After I deliver you from what you put in my place, I'm gonna do something that you would not believe if I I told you. He called him again, and Eli finally got it. He said to Samuel, go lie down, and if he calls you, I think this might be God. If he calls you. He should know this. By the way, he's the priest. He should not be guessing that this is God's voice. But sometimes those who have walked with God the longest are the weakest in their ability to

Lord for your servant.

Here's which is so cool because now we know that Samuel means heard by God. And since he was the answer to the prayer that his mother prayed, since she.

Was heard by God.

Now the one who was the answer to her prayers is learning to hear the God who heard her.

Oh, I just love that.

Just let me sit in that for a minute.

That they heard his words.

He heard God's words because he had a mom who prayed and God heard her words.

Let me give you your mother's day sermon. Early, God heard you.

He heard you, He heard you. God show you this. This is so crazy to me. Hannah, who was the mom of Samuel, was also the wife of a man named Elkana. Are y'all bored with all this background? I love this stuff. I live for this stuff. I want to show you this stuff. I live for this stuff.

This woman had a very, very, a very a very.

Difficult decision to make, and so do you. Here's the decision she had to make. Am I going to keep going to the House of God even with the broken heart? Am I going to keep bringing this before God? Because she couldn't have a child. And what made matters worse in First Samuel chapter one is that the Bible tells

So it went on year by year. It went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her.

This other woman, Penina, the other wife who was able to have children, would provoke Hannah year after year and make fun of her and mock her, and post all of her pictures of her beautiful mother's days with all of her kids. And she would provoke her year after year, And as often as Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore, Hannah wept and would not eat. So I'm giving you this situation for a reason, because I need you to understand

Ask God, and she would sacrifice.

God, please give me a baby. Now you might not be praying for a baby today. You may be praying for one of your children that you already have. You may be praying for a certain thing that you need God to do in your body. You may be praying about a mental illness. You may be praying about a way that you want God to give you clarity. It's been kind of foggy, So I need you to put yourself in the situation of Hannah today and not just think about if I have a kid or if I

Me about Samuel. Let me explain.

If you fast forward to the time that we read about in First sin Old chapter three, verses one through eleven.

Samuel is a boy now not a baby.

So eventually God gives Hannah.

What she asked for, a baby.

But she had to take the baby back to the temple and dedicate him to the Lord, because that's.

What she vowed she would do.

If God gives me a boy, I'll give him to you, Lord, I'll let him serve you.

So after she had weaned him.

She took him and she put him there in Eli's temple, which she knew.

Was corrupt, but she had no other choice, and she.

Had to trust God that God is going to take care of this, even though I can't.

She had to trust God that I'm sending my.

Kid to this crazy school and I know what goes on there, but I know the God who goes before my kid that I'm sending to this school. And in giving her child to God, it meant that she spent almost every day of her life away from this boy. Now God ended up giving her five other children.

Because you will never outgive God. You will never outgive God. You will never outgive God.

You're whining and crying about that little twenty dollars that you loaned your friend this week.

You didn't loan it to them. You loaned it to the Lord.

And the Lord will pay back with interest those he can trust with his substance. And every year she would go to see Samuel, her boy that she gave to God, she would bring with her a little ephod which was what the priest would wear, a little linenipha that she had made custom for him, and she'd have to kind of guess how big it should be, because she hadn't seen him for a year. So if you were to see Hannah go into the temple at this point in her life, you would see a proud mother, mother of

Now.

I know people don't say that to us directly, but don't they make us feel that way sometimes?

And yet she went. Notice what it says.

In verse seven, This is the real verse that I want to preach about. It says that Hannah, you're like you said you were preaching about Samuel. I can't preach about Samuel without preaching about Hannah because I think what Samuel did was based on something that Hannah did that he never even saw.

Before he was even born.

His mom would go to the temple year after year, and as often as she went up, circle went up. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Stop and let's break this down back to the top of the verse. It went on, circle went on.

Year by year. As often as she went up to the house.

Of the Lord, her rival used to provoke her. Therefore, Hannah wept, Circle wept. Here's my whole message in a sentence. She wept, but she went up anyway.

Listen to me.

This might be the word to snatch you out of despondency, This might be the word to shake you out of lethargy. Is that Hannah wept? But she went up, And God did not silence her enemy. But she went up anyway, And.

God did not give her her prayer request.

But she went up anyway, and she went up weeping. And she went up, and while she would go up, she would weep, and when she would get there, she would weep. But it went on year after year, and she went up. So I see a picture in this text of a woman who was willing to keep coming back even if I don't see the thing that I asked God for. I'm going back not by sight, but

You can go back.

Because Samuel heard the voice of God and thought it was the voice of Eli, and he went to Eli.

But God said wrong.

Guy, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, And you can have all your fancy definitions of faith that you want. But I think sometimes real faith is just a simple ass.

Go back, go back, go back, go back. You go back and do it again.

You go back and love them again, You go back and serve again, You go back and drop it again, you go back and pray again, you go back and think him again. You go back, and you go back, and you go back and you go back.

You getting the point.

Because Samuel learned how to do this through something that a woman did.

That he never even witnessed.

Her persistence led to his purpose, the only reason he had it in him to go back to Eli, no matter how many times it took.

I heard you call, I'm coming back. Go back and lie down. I'm coming again, go back and lie down. Where did he get the persistence to keep coming back like that?

Because he had a mom, Because he came from a womb that was barren, And every time she tried to have a baby she couldn't, and every time.

She tried to consent, she couldn't.

But she kept crying out to God, and she cried until she conceived, and she came back until she conceived, and she prayed until she conceived. And I am preaching to somebody today who has become convinced that God is not with you and the devil is a liar, because that same woman who left.

The temple all those years with an empty womb.

Came back one day carrying a priest's robe.

Because if you'll go back enough.

Times, all who all those times you didn't see when she went back and prayed anyway.

When she went back and sacrificed anyway, when you showed up at worked and smiled at hateful people. Anyway, go back smiling, and you shall come home rejoicing. Such seven people say, go back many times as you gotta do it. Go back, pick up your bible again.

Go back. I know the.

Bible was drive the last time you read it, but there shall be showers of blessing upon you.

In due season. Go back.

In that amazing holly. She stayed there and she prayed. Give them Verse fifteen. Verse fifteen is so annointing. We got to go to verse twelve to get to fifteen. Give them Verse twelve. Verse twelve says that when Hannah was there praying, she continued praying before the Lord. She continued praying before the Lord. She continued praying before the Lord.

Did God not hear her the first time?

No? God heard her the first time. God just understands something called due time, due time. Everybody say time, not d o time, Due time, do time. It means that God knows when Samuel needs to show up.

God knows when her wound needs to open.

God knew how to give her an enemy to keep her praying.

God knows when it needs to happen.

God knows when to start the wheel turning. God knows when the to'll fill you back up again. God knows when they need to say no, when they need to say yes, knows when to shut a door, knows when to open a window, knows when to tear off a ceiling.

God knows.

It's almost like Hannah Red Galatians six'.

Nine galatians six', nine says and let us not.

Grow weary I'm doing god.

For in?

Do season?

What season?

Do season? What season?

Do? Season now high five to three people And say i'm.

Doing good.

I'm.

Doing good put it in. The chat i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good i'm.

Doing, that yeah but you don't have your. Baby yet i'm. Doing good i'm. Doing good Why the bible told Me in galatians, six' nine let us.

Not grow weary. Of Doing good.

So i'm, not.

Feeling good but. I'm doing good it, doesn't Look good but.

I'M doing good i can't see the grass going. DOWN right now i can't see the money coming, UP right now i can't see.

The season painting what there is? A DO season and i know. WHAT to do i know.

What to do i'm.

A do good i'm gonna.

Praise this name i'm gonna workship. Him right here i'm GONNA pray like i. Believe the answer he's already, in the temple laying. On the bed, He heard me. He hears me.

Shake, Your neighbors say. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. He'll goose season.

I'm A so shall i, See some grass i'm gonna.

Cut it down and let.

It grow back the Word of the lord will not, faith the grass fase. The flower Face but The word of, god will say, forever and, ever somebody south forever for a light and momentary afflictions are producing in us a far exceeding.

Way of. Glory that's.

Amazing that's amazing all those times YOU didn't See.

I see hannah coming with her ephot again.

For her baby it was all those times you didn't see her coming with no baby clothes that made her produce a sign whose words Would. Come to israel they heard his words Because he, heard God's words because god.

Heard her words and.

You're telling me your. Life doesn't matter you're telling me you're thinking. About killing yourself you're telling me you almost thought about not coming.

To church Today and the lord can speak to you and, you Can, say speak lord.

Your servant tears you can't hear if. You're not here AND that's why. I keep coming.

I DON'T know if, i showed you but his mom did something before he was born that was, instilled in him even though she wasn't the. One raising him and he Came back to Samuel, or to eli?

What'd you?

Say, WHAT me Okay i guess i'll. TRY that again i think sometimes we make. It too Complicated sometimes all god wants to say to you is let's.

Try this again.

Let's, try this, Again your dummy let's.

Try this Again that's the lord's. Nickname for me and it's all those times.

YOU didn't see i think It's amazing that hannah was able to leave her Son. With the lord don't you little boarding school action never. Heard A kid but i think was even more amazing than the fact that she vowed and gave Him to The lord when god gave. HER a baby i think what's even more amazing than what She did when god gave her a baby is

UP under it.

I think it's when You pray for god to send you the relationship, and he doesn't and you press into him.

THAT much deeper i Think.

It's when god asks you to change the other person's behavior and he doesn't. CHANGE your approach i think it's When you ask god to take the strain off of you, and he doesn't so he puts the. STRENGTH in you I think what hannah did was amazing that she gave her Baby to the lord when. HE was born i think it's even more amazing that she kept going While.

Waiting on god.

I'm done preaching you can stand to your Feet because the lord had a word.

For somebody today.

How many of you have had times in your life Where you've seen god do something. Amazing for You you praised him, for those times and you should also wants you to learn How to praise him for all the times you didn't see that.

HE was doing i can't get off of it doing something for. A due season the important.

Thing. Would Be look when god Finally spoke To Samuel, in first, samuel chapter, three verse, ten, HE said speak.

I, hear you god and verse Eleven says.

The Lord, said, TO samuel behold i am about to do A thing in israel at which the two ears Of everyone in, israel will tingle and it would be. A devastating thing eli and his two sons would both die in the, heat Of battle so god could. Raise Up another because god's transition are. Not always pretty but in the process, of verse, eleven, HE says behold i am about to do A thing in israel that will make, everybody's spine, tingle ears tingle.

Two ears tingle this is going to. Be so big god is going.

To do Something but if samuel had been born at, any other time he could not have been The.

One that god used to bring.

The change about so Every year that hannah went to worship That she thought god, Was ignoring her god was. Not ignoring her god was positioning her to bring forth from her womb what.

The nation needed and sometimes it's not about, what we want it's.

About Do.

Time what god does. Is HIS business what i do until he. Does is worship. TITH companies tif i just SAW this while i. Was preparing, today right now, in this moment.

She can lead you, in worship spontaneously without any lyrics, on the screen. WITHOUT any planning i did NOT tell her i. WOULD call her i did NOT prepare her i.

WOULD call her i didn't do. Any OF that but i, just called. HER tif tif i didn't.

Even have to.

Call her twice.

She just came, and right now with your hands, lifted in worship lead them.

For one minute and. It didn't worship whatever flows, from your heart just do. It right now, m h.

Oh we. TRUST your teeth i can trust you d's because, you know bads. You, KNOW best.

JEEZE i know i, Can, trust you jeez because your, way IS bad so. I will swender.

I will surrender.

Your, way IS bad so.

I will swaner.

I, Can. Trust, you jeez hey that. Way wonder show if we, do this straight they, show out up. GO on away i can be and so they show and not get a weird this. Shower and nothing that's what happens.

When you so, so come on clap your Hands.

And thank god so let me tell.

You why.

Why can?

She do that because, She did that she did that since she was. A little girl her dad, is a pastor. AN amazing man i MET him when i met her MOM and dad, I was like.

I get it i get.

While you're awesome but then they told me stories how she used to be in, the church alone hours and hours and hours pounding four chords, on a piano Just singing.

Till god game and somebody said to me the other, day They said, When tiff, sings GOD comes and i knew.

What they meant that sounds bad if you just take it, out Of context because god.

Is ALWAYS here but i knew.

What THEY meant what i, loved about IT and why i called you OUT.

Here is i want all of them to get a picture, of.

Their life to realize that it is what you did until this season.

That made you able TO do what i just called you to do. In this moment. So it's.

Wonderful it's wonderful it's a great picture because you're doing things right now. That seem insignificant you feel all, alone right now you feel like it doesn't, matter right now and you cut the grass and it grows back higher, And, you go GOD why am?

I even bothering but remember there is.

A Due season what god does, is his business and what you do until he. Does is Worship so when, god Calls you When. God called samuel he was ready because he had Ministered. To The lord maybe god has you in a season of your life where you're. Ministering to him it's not about. People appreciating you it's not about. People acknowledging you it's not about comparing yourself. To other people it's not about your rival in your ear telling you how you should.

Be further along it's not.

About your insecurity it is about what you are doing.

Until due season they shall walk. Andnot get weary they shall walk.

And not faint that's what happens when you Wait.

On the lord it's because she did it in a church alone that she can do it in. This Room today and i'm, Trying to say god.

Is preparing you god. Is preparing you would you huk three people and tell them Wait, On the lord Wait, On the lord Wait. On the lord do.

Not grow weary in well doing you shall receive.

In two season.

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