All right, we're going to get into the message very soon, but first an important message for you. This is our twenty twenty one year end offering. I love this time of year, an amazing time of year because every year we end with appreciation for what God has done, expectation for what He's going to do. This has been a tradition. Like right now, they're going to put up a few graphics of all the offerings we've had through the years. I can't even remember them, all Game Change or Waymaker beyond.
But this year, you don't even know the word that God gave me. I don't. This is not stage. I should reveal it to you. Yeah, this is not scripted, and we're doing our own camera work, so I apologize at the angle is off. But this year the Lord led me to the word better. Everybody say better, better, like put it in the chat. And we don't mean better than another person, or we don't necessarily mean that.
You know, we're never content, And what we mean by that is is Hag II two nine says that the glory of this present house, what God is doing, will be greater than the glory of the former house. We believe God is always doing something greater. We just have to see it. So I want to thank you in advance for your gifts. Those of you who already support this ministry, you're the reason. You're the reason we get
to preach the gospel. You're the reason that thousands of testimonies that we hear in this ministry are made possible.
And for those of you who are beginning to give, either through a one time year end donation to help us with our expansion, or the best way really through recurring giving, through putting God first with the tide, or maybe an above and beyond offering to say thank you to Him and believe Him for better things in faith, we want to say thank you, and we're standing with you right now as we begin this season of giving called Better Now through the end of the year. Yeah,
thank you so much. Every time you give, it helps us to spread the Gospel to the world and beyond, and we are so thankful for your partnership with us in the gospel. It's going to be an amazing holiday season and I can't wait to hear more about better. It's going to be better. Better than you ask her a match if he's just three twenty, We're believing God for you. Now let's go well, thank you for being here with us at Elevation Church. I mean, what a
year that it has been. We're so thankful that you decided to be a part today, that you've been worshiping with us. I know the room looks a little bit different right now because we wanted to get together and just talk about some of our favorite moments from the year. My name is Chazolo, I'm the online pastor. I'm here with some friends. That's right. I'm Colleen Tunas, I'm on the programming team. I'm a name Chid, I'm the pastor of our University City campus. And I'm Brittany at Cantilla,
I'm our Egret's pastor. And like I said, we're just thankful that you're here in a part of Elevation Church. And as we look back and think about all that God has done this year, I think about messages. I think about significant moments and the the events that we've had. Okay, so I think about the beginning of the year, back to when Pastor pre beta blessings at the beginning of the year and he talked about boat sinking blessings in
your life. We talked about being built different and sometimes we use that time lapse testimony and these are like isn't it Like you hear some of these, you're like, wait, was that this year? There's unreal that the year reaching kept in the dark, it's like one of my top five ever like ever or yes you yes, yes, yes, yes, Okay, in the chat, let us know what your favorite sermon was this year, or maybe it was your favorite moment Holly with I don't think I'm ready for this and
Pastor wrapped up there like kept in the dark. These phenomenal messages, but yeah, let us know because there were so many moments that probably marked very specific times for you. When you hear some of these messages, you think back and think, man, that was a that was a big moment in my life when that reminded me that God had everything in control. Or man, that's when this happened.
Who remembers copy that copy that? Do you remember when Pastor brought Graham up on stage and I because I was weeping stop crying them green light at the Red Sea or this one the god not I think that one? I think might be my favorite God who walked around doing that? Okay, the last message of the pastor Stephen preached this year. I think you've probably been doing this when Pastor did this, everybody do this. Something good is coming from this. How many times did you do that
in your life these past couple of weeks? Many it's has been a staple in my week. Something good God, I know it. I'm belie But really it's not just the messages from our pastors that were so thankful for this year. We really believe God did so much through you through this church, through elevation in our campuses. We just know God showed up in home, in workout rooms and workplaces and egres spread in rhythm nights with our
youth and e kids watch parties. I mean, we could go on and on about all that we saw God do, but really just being the church together, yeah, every single week and seeing people join from all over the world each and every week, and how God is moving through this place is pretty incredible. So let us know where you're joining from. We always love to see how this family isn't just limited to a building here in Charlotte,
North Carolina, but it's a global family. And today we're going to take a few moments and just share some of our favorite sermons, our favorite moments, some clips from some amazing messages from this year. Because this year wasn't just a better year. You know, we're believing for better, but better. It was better than ever ever. Okay, so we're gonna kick it off. This was one of my favorite sermons from this year, and it was right at
the beginning of the year. This one has helped me a lot, not just at the beginning of the year, but it's helped shape a out of my perspective throughout the year. This one is from Same Devil's New Levels. Take a look where in your life are you using an old strategy in a new season? Where does that need to be upgraded? You know, like when you do go through the Legend of Zelda. This is a current pop culture reference here, Okay for all the young people. When you do go through a video game, you got
to pick up all the weapons along the way. And now the shame of it is when you're fighting with an inferior weapon because it reminds you of Gowiith. You know, when you're defensive but nobody's attacking you. That's bad. The whole thing of whether David lives or die, the whole thing on whether your join lives or die, the whole thing on whether or not you make it, the whole thing on whether or not you live to show your
kid something different. See, I feel sorry for David. He doesn't know how to be a king in this way. He had a bad example in Saul. He was only the second king that Israel ever had. The whole reason Israel wanted a king was because the Philistines were oppressing them. The whole reason the Philistines were oppressing them is because the Philistines were metalworkers, so they had more weapons. The Israelites didn't have the weapons, so they wanted a king.
But they got a bad king because they selected on the basis of hike, not heart. When David came into the throne, he had the heart for it, but he didn't know how. And that's the thing about the people I passed her. I have the heart to be a good dad. I have the heart to be a good woman. I have the heart to be a good employee. I have the heart to make it. I have the heart to break these changs. I want to get free, but
I never saw how. So now I'm out here fighting year old giants with fifteen year old tactics, and you can't fight grown up battles with teenage tactics. You've got to grow into this season. You've got to grow into this challenge. You've got to grow into this assignment. You've got to grow into the annoying thing that you've had all along. It's not automatic. It's not automatic. And whenever I face something that scares me, you know what I do?
They say, say, what is it? New levels, new devils? No, when I hit a new devil, I sink back to the same level. I go back to the sewer, you know. I go back to the dumpster, back when I was emotionally homeless and had nothing to eat. I go back inside myself and keep counsel with the most unreliable person that I know, me unchecked. How does it go? See all these crazy things preachers say, new levels, new devils. So I wanted to show you, on one hand, how
this is not Goliath. It just reminds you of him and that you have grown. But really, what I want to show you is what God did for David when he was cornered, and I believe He's going to do it for you. I know what we want to happen. That is not going to be what happens we want. When David's got a sword to his throat. Remember this guy, this Ish. I like how his name starts with ish because we're all dealing with some Ish, aren't we. That's
the part of his name. I can't say. Somebody put in the chat new Ish, same God, all right, stop stop it. He had a sword three hundreds Can you believe that that's seven pounds? Can you believe that Golias was fifteen pounds six hundred shekels? It was only half the size of Golias? Sort? So why couldn't David beat him? I should be able to do this. I should be able to movement. I always did it this way before. And I got up, and you know, my get up and go, got up and went. While we're doing cliches,
you know what's happening right now? Why isn't this working? Because it sucks because the moment you mastered the strategy of chefs. So like when my oldest became a teenager, I'm so proud of him, but I didn't know how to raise a teenager. And you know, everybody start telling me just give him his space. I says space. So let me get this right. This human being that gave me no space or sleep for the first two years of his life, now I'm Sill's just back afe. That's
hard to do. Why are y'all looking at me crazy? You can't parent a fifteen year old the way you parent a two year old. I see people try to do it, and then I see the kid explode when they get out from under that supervision because you did not shift the strategy to match the season. Do you think pastoring this church now is like how it was pastoring when we had nineteen people. Imagine if we imagine if we tried to have the cookout on my grill after this sermon like we did back then. There's not
enough propane in North Carolina. Uh huh uh huh huh huh huh. So what you have to do is what abashi? I want somebody to name their baby that I wish I wouldn't name one of my kids. Abashi. It's a good name. No, it's a good name. It means father of a gift. And what I wanted for the Bible to say, because when I feel like the enemy is closing in on me and I'm tired, and I'm spent, and I'm out of ideas, and I'm sick of people. I wanted to send me an angel. God did not
send an angel to rescue David. My goodness, I see why that's one of your favorites. I just wanted to keep going. I wanted to sitting on this front road. It's just over and over that it's God, and like that's how we started out the year. We started out the year so strong, and I know the sermons have been speaking to us all year. And there's one other thing that I have to say started out real strong, y'all, and that is worship them recorded this year called Old
Church Bases. Yes, good, you know, just a few weeks ago, it's been nominated for a couple of Grammys. I'm saying, we have Album of the Year, that's right. And then we also have two songs Zirah wait on You that are also nominated for Grammys. Of course, you remember when we got to hear wait on You the preview. I was right here, yeah, right there, first time we heard that song. Yeah, we got a little exclusive look as
a staff. And if you are not familiar with it, or maybe you just want to relive it for a moment. Take a look at this. Okay, so this is one of admittedly one of my YouTube repeats. Yes, oh of course, and I want that to keep going. We can't do that, just keep playing. And speaking of YouTube, can we talk
about how YouTube has been ministering. It's the year of twenty one playing back all the sermons and we've haven't seen two new YouTube channels launched, right, So we had Elevation plus plus launch this year and that's where you can watch back some of the stories that we're able to share in church. We actually go live every Wednesday and we're able to dive deeper and talk about the sermons. But then we also launched Holly's soup channel this year
and it's been super fun. It's honestly a really fun channel. It really is recipes, there's clips of sermons, all types of things. It's also inspirational. She's got devotionals on there. It's got everything you could possibly want. That's right. But the woman of God, Holly Fredick, has been bringing words this year that have been ministering to my soul. Can
we talk about that for a second. Different she's been on another level and she preached one of my favorite sermons called running on Empty this year, and Colin, you probably remember these. We got these after she preached it. Yes, it was awesome. It's literally just like a graphic that she made to help us remember, and it says cry out, reach out, and pour out. These were the points that she preached about, and a little bonus point called live on what is left. And so take a look at
this clip. And you know, sometimes we go through seasons with the emptiness. So it's more than just it's more than just the feeling that we don't have purpose. Sometimes it's the feeling that you don't have enough to make it. And I know that some of you under the sound of my voice, you're like my friend, and you're going through the hardest thing you've ever been through. You're fighting for your life and the word of the Lord for
you today. Just keep pouring. You have to keep pouring, because the miracle only happens when you move, because it's while you pour. Oh, I'm out of dargs. It's while you poor that you experience God's strength and his grace and the joy that only comes while you pour. Because now you're pouring with a purpose. She was pouring for those voice. But she was never pouring from a full jar. She was pouring from a jar that only had a
little bit of oil. And if you wait, thanks guys, if you wait until you feel full to pour, you will never experience the power of God in your life, and you'll never experience the miracle a feeling. My God is just pouring through you. Sometimes when you pour, it does feel like a sacrifice, a sacrifice, and no one will ever see. You know what Jesus said, Luke six point thirty eight. He said, give and it will be
given unto you a good measure. Press it down, shaken together, Get that jar full, because it will be running over into your lap. Jesus said, you just keep giving and I will pour into you. Our instinct says, hold on tightly to everything you have, but Jesus says, just keep giving. Be generous with your love, be generous with your time, be generous with your encouragement. When you feel empty, just
keep pouring. So here's how the story ends. When all the jars were full, she said to her sons, bring me another one, but he replied, there's not a jar left. Then the oil stopped flowing. She went and told the Man of God, and he said, go and sell the oil and pay off your debts. You and your sons can live on what's left. Can I give you a bonus point, Live on what's left? See when you're in a pouring season, that season where you're fighting for your life and you just keep your head down and you
keep pouring. You pour when you're tired. You pour when you feel like no one notices. You pour when everyone else's kids are acting right but yours. You poor when your friend gets pregnant by accident but you still can't get pregnant on purpose. You pour when someone else gets the promotions. You pour when you need a healing in your own body. And the next thing you know, you made it through another day. You don't know how, but you did. And one day you turn around and you've
got a pantry full of oil to live on. Live on what's left. Remember Remember that Bible study that I wrote for the women of our church when we were in the pandemic. My husband and I were just praying about how we could help people during this time, Like what else could we do? I said, well, I have
this little Bible study. So we sent out a message on Facebook, and thousands of women from all over the world responded, and for eight weeks, every Tuesday night they joined me live and we studied how to be a godly wife. Somehow you made it through those dark days. But now you see, all along, through the pain and the confusion and the heartache you've been stockpiling. She lost her husband. She's not gonna get her husband back, but she had something left to live on. Oh oh, here's
that friendship that I made sitting in chemo treatments. And here's the verse that God gave me when I was crying on the couch. And here's the song that I listened to every single day for months. And every time I hear that song, it just reminds me of the faithfulness of God. And oh oh, here's that gratitude journal where I learned how to look for the little blessings. Now I get to live on what's left miracles. Don't be afraid of the empty spaces, because empty is where
God does his best work. Empty is where God does his best work. Now you see why this was Yes my favorites, and I get it. That's why I keep this reminder in my Bible. Right at second King score verses one through seven. Ye, there's a reminder of what Holly shared with us, and I remember she wrote, just keep pouring, right, and so that's the anthem that I've been living through twenty twenty one is just keep That's
so good. It's such a powerful visual. I think of that all the time, of her just holding all of their dispers and I actually remember watching that sermon. I was like, she's definitely gonna drop on this. She gave us a jar, he does. I have it on my desk, Alli look at it all the time, and it reminds me of that exact thing that you just said is gone to a whole nother level. That's right, whole nother level.
And I'm just so thankful for our pasty way that they continue to poor, poor and poor weekend and week out. And one of the other things that I've loved about this year is that we were able to sync up across all of our campuses and online this year, and one of those moments was with Race Like Baptism. It was amazing to be able to be in these rooms again where we've been shut down for so long and doing everything we can to build again, and to have
this moment. To see people go public with their faith in these massive numbers was amazing. You guys got to go on the road. Our online team got to go to nine different states to baptize people, and you got to go to tost I got to go to Colorado. Chad was your baptizing people at Valentine and it was just so it was really special to be a part of.
It's amazing to see people that have been waiting for an opportunity to be able to go public in faith and this moment representing them leaving pain in this water, leaving shame in this water, sin, and so many things that I feel like Pastor has been used. God's been
using Pastor to really preach to throughout. That's one of my favorite sermons this year was a troubled Mind in an open door where Pastor got real practical around what does it mean for us to be able to step into some of the things that God has called us to do. How about we check this clip out now. Listen to this what God says to the church at Philadelphia, and I believe he might say it to the church at Elevation too. I know you have little strength, It's
not about strength. Can I show you something? This is really cool. Everybody says strength, now everybody says scheme. Go back to Second Corinthians, Chapter two. Verse eleven is one of those that I've read out of context for years. I didn't even really know what it meant. I never really read it in the context of Paul's conflict. But now have and I saw something. He said in verse eleven. We got to forgive and get through this in order that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not
aware of his schemes. Now, what was interesting to me is he didn't say in order that Satan put the verse back up. He didn't say in order that Satan might not overpower us. He said outwit us. Because the battle is not about strength, it's about strategy. Put this in the chat. Say it out loud if you're with me in the room. It's about the strategy. And Satan is not stronger than you. We just read this. If
God opens the door, nobody can shut it. No devil, no depression, no trauma, no abuse, nothing, nothing can stop the Gospel of Jesus Christ from going forth in your life, in your heart, in your marriage. We give the devil too much credit sometimes because we'll say, oh, well, the devil is attacking my marriage, the devil is attacking my finances. That's where you're feeling it. But that's not where the
attack is happening. He didn't say in order that Satan might not overpower us, because that would make it about your strength. And we already know from John sixteen thirty three that Jesus said peace. I give to you my peace I leave with you in the world. You will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world. It's not about the trouble in front of you. We could have a testimony service about your trouble. What's the point we can all line up and blake. Can I
top your trouble? I have a headache, I have a back ache. I don't have a back, I don't have a head I'm decapitated. I've seen people do it, and we top each other with our trouble. But that's not what this is about, is it. It's not about what's happening in my life. Satan's not stronger than you. He can't make you do anything. If God opens the door to freedom, if God opens the sea, you can go through it. I don't care who's chasten you. God don't care who said you couldn't. I don't care how long
you've struggled with it. It's not about who's stronger, it's about who's smarter. Because you're like, well, that's Jesus. Jesus has overcome the world. I'm not Jesus. But first John four for says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. So he's not stronger. That's not why you're stuck. He's not stronger. You have the spirit of God. He's not stronger. The condemnation that haunts you at light, in your in your midnight hour
has been nailed to the cross. The written regulations have been nailed to the cross. That's dealt with. That is not what is standing at the door. Paul said, I had an open door, but I had a troubled mind, And so he sent Titus with a letter to the Corinthian Church because he didn't know if things were going to be all right. You know, your body can be
one place, in your mind can be another. And Paul's at Troaz, and God's given him opportunities and he can preach the gospel to a whole city, and he said, but I couldn't find Titus, so I left. And it didn't like he left because he wanted to. When Paul says in verse fourteen thirteen, excuse me, I believe it is he said, I said goodbye. That's the only time he uses that phrase in all of scripture. It's a
solemn farewell. He's almost embarrassed about it. He's like, I couldn't get my mind right, so I couldn't seize the opportunity. Now that hit me because I'm trying to raise these kids, you see, and I know God has given me an opportunity to be a great father. Sometimes, if I'm honest with you, I'm sitting at the table with them, and my body is there. My body is there, but my
mind is on other stuff. And some of it is real, and some of it is completely fabricated, of stuff that might happen three years from now, maybe, and so my mind will drift to the possibly and slip away from the present. Now. When I saw Paul, I saw us. He said, I was intro ass, and so was the open door that God gave me, and great things could have happened intro ass. But I had to say goodbye, not because of the trouble in Troass, but because my
mind was trouble. The enemy wants to mess with your mind so much that you can't even go through the doors that God opens for you, that you can't even enjoy the moments that God gives you. He wants to mess with your mind and scramble your perspective to the point where you can't even focus long enough to sit down and pray about something. He wants to He wants to get you so focused on something. And I put down four things that spell the word door with each
first letter. When was the disappointments in your life? When was the outcomes that you can't control? That's the oh, disappointments outcomes When we mentioned the offenses that you can't get over, and one is the regrets of the opportunities
that you can't get back. My God. I mean, I just I really love the way that Pastor not only preaches revelation and it's a spirit that comes in rooms to pull you out of out of these dark moments, but he gives you practical action steps things that you can do, and spelling things so that we can remember remember that yes, I'm just so thankful for the way that Pastor and Holly has poured out this year. Yes, I totally agree. Pastor Steven has preached some incredible messages
this year. And there's one that probably only a handful of people have gotten to here, and that was his message for Elevation Nights, and if you don't know what that is. We actually got to go on tour this year and we got to worship with over sixty five thousand people in eight different cities across the United States, and it was just a surreal thing to be a part to go to Atlanta, both of you guys, It
was blowing. It was amazing wild just to think of the beginning of this year just what church looked like. Then to fast forward to the fall where we're worshiping in full arenas with people singing songs all across the United States. The things that came out of our church. And so it's always so special for me to see and get to meet our e fam and for you too. We got to meet so many people that came up to us and said, like, you have no idea how God used your church to get me through the last
eight years. It did feel so much like family. You know, that was the thing. You know. We'd go into an arena and it was an empty arena, and then when it was full, Yeah, it didn't feel like a bunch of strangers together. It felt like family together. And working and hearing from pastors was amazing, It really was. Well, if you didn't get to make it to one of those stops or we didn't come near, you, take a look at this. Yes, wew you wait on God, you're
getting strong up. He is a god of yes and a men, and he has come through for me in the pass and he's not gonna leave me now. Comment. God doesn't mean anything from you. What's our faith? You've been in a storm lately, But I see Jesus walking over top of your situation. You've been under anxiety. The devil's been telling you you're not gonna make it. He's a liar. And upon this rock Jesus said, I will build my church to make you want to go back
a bit. I too, truly, truly. So what's crazy about this is that we were on the road for our teams, were gone for ten days. Pastor Stephen free eight times in ten days, and then we got back did we get back on Saturday, Friday, Saturday, whatever it was. The weekend was right around the corner, and Pastor Stephen just jumped in with one of my favorite services from the year, and I'm like, I don't know how he does it, but he did it, and it was called stop Crying.
It's coming. It's unbelievable. Take a look at this clip. He says after Jesus cried, which is important. You know, trauma is trauma is real. Seventy years in Babylon will make you cry. It'll make you forget to sing when you find out what your kids been doing behind your back. It'll make you cry when you and your husband don't even look at each other except when you're around people so you can fake it real good. It'll make you
cry alone. God doesn't correct the sisters, but glad he didn't stop there, and you can't either, because in verse thirty eight John eleven thirty eight, it says, not Jesus cried, but Jesus wants more deeply moved came, so he cried, and then he came. Stop crying is coming. I don't want the old temple to keep me from seeing Jesus. Seriously, you know how it's said in the verse and Hadi that from the day I brought you out of Egypt till now, did you catch that really small thing in
verse five? I didn't make a big deal out of it, but it is a big deal. Because they thought that Pharaoh had to let them go for them to leave Egypt. That wasn't their biggest problem. Their biggest problem was letting go of Moses. Because see, Moses gave them the law, and they were so committed to that that when Jesus came, who is the true image of God to show them what God is really like, not to break the law, but to feel it. When Jesus came, they could not
recognize better because they were stuck in before. So while we're fighting like, hey Pharaoh, let me go, Hey addiction, let me go, Hey temptation, let me go, God's like the thing that you're holding onto is the former glory. I don't know who it is of his three people, as we're saying, you gotta let go a former glory to receive present help. Now that means a lot of things. It means that the same Jesus who cried at the
gate came to the tomb. It didn't stop him from doing what he came to do, because he didn't come just to cry or give him a Hallmark car. He didn't just bake him a roast so they could eat it three days later. He came to show them who he was. He came to reinvent their concept of God and to switch their template of truth that not only am I a healer, I am resurrection. He came to prefigure what he would do. He came so he cried. Everybody say, he cried. Come on, don't tap out on me.
This is the best part of the sermon. I know y'all aren't going to listen to a sermon about the glory of the Latter House and skip the end of the sermon. This is the part I wanted to preach us to because he cried, and you've been crying, and you have a Christ too, criest, so that's fine. He will cry with you, But then you have a Christ too. After he stopped crying, he came to the tomb. So he's coming to the tomb. He's coming to the park that's buried. He's coming to the park that's broken. He's
coming to the park that's dead. He's coming to the park that stinks. He's coming to the park that's rotten. He's coming to the park that's given up on. He cried, he came. But that's not the good part. The good part is verse forty three. There's forty three on the screen. Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, And when Jesus has said this, he called. So he cried, he came. And then he called in a loud voice.
And I hear that voice calling today through the halls of history, from the pages of Hagai to this very moment in the house of God, Lazarus, Come for, Come for he's speaking to your joy. He's speaking to your peace, he's speaking to your strategy, he's speaking to your spirit. Come far. So you cried a while. It's all right. I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed. Sh did you catch that whole sermon? He cried, he came,
He called. You got to call some things out today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. You ain't not gonna come just automatically. You can cry over it as long as you want, But I believe that something deeper is call him from the inside. What the prophet told the people was you got to do the work. You gotta do. The work is wishing for something that you don't have keeping you from working with what you do have. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I needed this word that the Lord said.
You can cry, but eventually you gotta come and you got to call those things that be not as though they are beneath your feelings. And the promise is it's a covenant, not a commitment. Commitments can be broken. Yeah, covenants cannot, especially when one of the parties is the one who cannot lie. So it's a lot of pain. You know. When they laid the foundation, Ezra showed us something. Give me Ezra three ten when they got that temple started, And I think I'm gonna pick this up next week
for real, y'all, because y'all got one point. It's your fault. You were shouting and receiving and glorifying Die. I didn't come to get through my points. I came to give you this work. Stop crying. It is common, it's common. This message was so challenging and encouraging at the same time. And I think that's just one of the things I appreciate the most about it. Yeah, you get both, and
it was so so helpful. We get that time and time again all year long, and I hope even just reliving some of those moments stirred up some feelings of Man, I remember what God was doing in my life at those specific moments. Maybe you're new to joining us and you're like, I want to see the rest of that. Where can I see the rest of that? Well, if you head over to Elevation Church's YouTube channel, you can catch all of these messages and more finish them up.
Pastor was saying, I'm going to pick that up next week. You can see what he preached them last week. And so what we just really hoped that you came away with today is a sense of gratitude of what it is that you're able to be a part of and thankful for how God is moving not just in a global church but through you right where you are. And that's what we love seeing. You know, we didn't have time to hit some other amazing moments this year. Let's hit it love. Yes, how many hours too many? The
people that were impacted by groups? Yeah, yeah, groups, I mean we could sit here all day and relive some of the amazing moments that we saw God do incredible things in our lives, and we're trusting that it happened
right where you are. And I was just stated again what I love about our church is that it's not just some people here in Charlotte, but it's people in University City, it's people in Florida, it's people in GTA, it's people on the other side of the world who are mobilized to be the church right where they are. And so thank you for what you do, and thank
you to our pastors. Yeah, I mean, we'd be abissed to go any further without saying thank you to Pastor Stephen and Holly for your leadership, for you allowing to God work in and through you and speak through you to the world, literally to the world each each and every week. So put it in the chat just as we're closing up here, how thankful you are for our pastors. We're so thankful for you, Pastor Stephen and Holly, and
thankful for you Elevation Church. Seeing how God is working in and through your life has been amazing, even in this year end season, seeing how many of you have stepped up for the very first time through giving in this year end offering. So many of you said I'm placing God first in the ear of my finances and we're excited to see how God works in your life or maybe some of you, well, we know a lot of you went above and beyond and gave thousands of you did to say I want to see what God
can do. Is I trust Him and step out in faith and believe for more. And that's what we're believing for your life as we wrap up this year and really look forward to what's next. We're really excited that we get to be a part of something this year that was better than ever. That's right. I don't know what you thought you were coming into this year with. Maybe you were caring some heavy things, but we're just that it was better than ever. But we don't have
to stop here. We're believing that next year is even better. Next year is going to be the best year. Yes, So thank you for being a part of the church. Thank you for letting God move in and through you from right where you are. Our prayers of blessing are on you today. Thank you cheers for being a part well if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love for you to do. Make sure
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