Dig Until God Does

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Let's go back to our scripture in Second King's Second Kings chapter three. If you're seated, stand real quick for the word of God all of a sudden, put that little phrase in the chat if you're joining us online, or look at the person next to you and say, all of a sudden the scripture that we were singing about a little bit. And by the way, that song is not released, so no, you can't get it. Guess if you screen recorded, I can't stop you. But if you put it on YouTube, we will take it down

I to do with you?

Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.

But the King of Israel said to him.

No, for the Lord has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

And Elisha said, as.

The Lord of Hosts lives before whom I stand. Surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehasaphat, King of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you. And this is what I was preaching about a little bit last week. But now bring me a musician. Then it happened somebody shall Then when when the musician began to play, Then it happened when the musician.

Played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

And he said, thus says the Lord, make this valley full of ditches. For thus says the Lord, you shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain.

Yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you, your cattle, and your animals may drink.

Just start pointing to everything in your house right now and say, everything around me gets to drink from this blessing. And this is watch a simple matter in the sight of the Lord. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand. Also, you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up every spring of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones. Now it happened in the morning when the grain offering was offered, that suddenly

Isn't that crazy?

The part I didn't get to that I was supposed to say was it will flow when.

It's supposed to.

And guess what, I couldn't preach it until right now, because this is the word that God wants spoken.

In this moment, somebody shout, it will flow when it's supposed to.

High five five people on your way to your seat, say let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow. Let it flow, Let it flow, Let it flow.

It's not Christmas time. Not let it snow. Let it flow, Let it flow.

Suddenly, kind of re establishing something that I said last week, say a little different hearing, get up the top.

By the way, I want.

You to understand something about all of the things that you see in life that just seemed to come out of nowhere, They don't come out of nowhere. Most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. Most, not all of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden.

When I stood in.

Front of the mirror about twenty years ago and realized that Holly had made me fat in our first year of marriage, my realization that my waist slide had gone from a collegiate thirty eight or thirty thirty two to a.

First year of marriage thirty eight. That six sizes didn't happen suddenly.

That six size expansion project on my stomach wasn't sudden. But I did walk in front of the mirror one day with my shirt off and suddenly realized, So most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, Wow, I.

Look more pregnant.

My wife is not pregnant, and if any of us is going to be pregnant, it needs to be heard.

But this is bad.

So the way I am wired, I went on a.

Sudden Atkins diet and it was delightful because through bacon, peanuts and the power of diet coke, I got it back down slowly, not suddenly. And so just kind of saying it in a playful way that most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden flows from something like a steady diet of pasta doritos. I didn't suddenly eat seven hundred bags of doritos.

I just date to a day for a year.

And so when we shout about suddenly, we want to take just a moment to recognize that while certain things come into our life all of a sudden that are desirable, other things I could call these the other suddenly. It's where you wake up and realize, all of a sudden, I don't like the.

Person that I'm living with anymore.

All of a sudden, this thing in my life has gone from something that I can control to something that I can't all of a sudden, I'm drinking not just for the sake of winding down but getting through each day. Suddenly something that was helpful to me all of a sudden, it feels like something.

That is holding me now.

I don't want to be negative about this beautiful scripture in Second King's three because it is such an exciting scripture. But understanding that we will often find ourselves in sudden situations that were created through gradual decisions can help us to go back in our lives and allow the Holy Spirit of God to begin to reverse some of the things that our routines created. And the Holy Spirit is speaking to me about the things all of a sudden in our lives that he can change.

But it has to start somewhere.

So if there is something in your life like these kings in this passage that I read to you, the King of the Northern Kingdom, the King of the Southern Kingdom, and the King of Edom have all gathered together and on their way to a war, they run out of water, and they have marched seven days through the desert, and suddenly they realize, we need a word from God or we're not going to make it. We need God to

Two ways gradually?

Then suddenly a sudden moment to realize something that had started long before, all of a sudden. So most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, That's what we were singing a minute ago, all of a sudden. Most of the stuff that we recognize all of a sudden, flows from something. Maybe it wasn't caused by one thing, but it flows from something that wasn't all of a sudden. And touch somebody next to you and say it wasn't sudden, showed up sudden, but it wasn't sudden.

The same could be said for success.

All right, let's turn this real quick, because it feels kind of dark.

In here, all right, and it feels kind of feels kind of negative in here. I want to shift this energy real quick.

I'm calling on the God of Jacob, the God of Jolostine.

I'm going some positivity in here real quick. All right. Success isn't really sudden. Now. If it is sudden, that's troublesome as well.

Because if the success is too sudden, it won't be sustainable. But most success that God gives will take you up the stairs. Very few elevators to this our church is called elevation. But to really grow through this ministry, or any ministry through the Word of God, there will be steps that God.

Will use to strengthen you.

And they won't all feel like they're going upward.

Sometimes it will feel like you are going down, down, down, down down.

But if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, one scripture said, in due time, he.

Will lift you up. And the lifting might happen.

Suddenly, but there are layers beneath every sudden lifting that unless you peel them back and see you will misunderstand the nature of success, just like you can misunderstand the nature of struggle. Struggles don't ingrain themselves all of a sudden. They happen slowly, and so do successes. One of my friends was telling me about I'll tell you who he was, because it'd be a little bit better if I make it specific. He's one of the greatest songwriters that I've

I saw him do it one time.

We were writing this one song and he just goes, you take what the enemy ment for evil, and.

You turn it for good?

Do you turn it for good?

And then he goes or something like that all of a sudden.

So when we finished writing that particular song, he looks at me and goes, that's the song that you write three hundred other songs to get to that one song.

And I realized.

Something about his skill set as a songwriter. Watch me that what he did suddenly in that moment was the result of stuff that he did steadily. A steady hand brings a sudden blessing.

Now asked him a little bit more about his story.

And he's one of the most successful songwriters, not only one of the best songwriters, but one of the most successful songwriters. He's won Grammys and Dove Awards and probably Stellar Awards, and he's probably on his way to an Emmy or a Tony or an Oscar that I don't know about at this moment. But he told me that

Many of them said you just don't have it.

One woman named Cindy was willing to give him a publishing contract. It wasn't much money, but it was enough to live off of with a newborn bab So he began to write songs off of that publishing advance from one woman that believed in him.

For a year, he wrote.

He turned in one hundred and fifty songs in the first year. At the end of the first year, not one of them had been recorded. Not one had been recorded other than on his demo machine. It was probably like a task scam portas Studio four to fourteen before we were doing it on our voice memos on our iPhone.

I didn't ask him that detail.

But it was probably something arka like that. And even if it wasn't, let me tell the story that way because it makes it better. The second year, for some reason, Cindy decided to renew his contract for another year.

He wrote one hundred and fifty more songs.

One got recorded, but before you shout about the one that got recorded and you think I'm going to tell you it was, I can only imagine and it went on to be a smash movie.

It wasn't. That song was put as a secret track. Now half this room.

Doesn't know what a secret track is because the secret track.

Is not available in the digital age.

A secret track was on the compact disc when after the last song had finished playing, it would go about four minutes and then another song, a throwaway song, a bonus song that nobody ever heard.

Because they turned the CD off. That's where his song went.

We got three hundred songs, one recorded, and that's a secret track.

And in the third year, when he was nominated for a Grammy.

A lot of people said, where did this guy come from?

Secret to sudden?

When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites and go out and go hey, does anybody see me serving?

Does anybody see the three hundred songs in our road? No, we don't want to hear them. They suck. Keep writing songs, and then maybe one.

Day, if you're doing enough in the secret place, I'll know why I'm preaching this heart twenty minutes in. But one day, what is secret? God can make it sudden. But we live in a day where nobody has any time to be shut up in the secret place.

Everybody wants the sudden.

Thing, but it is the secret things that produced the sudden things. Now I feel the Holy Spirit, Now I feel the wind. Now I feel it blowing. Somebody shouts secretly then suddenly, and whether whether it is our secret struggles that we need to bring to God and say, God, help me deal with this, help me process this, help me deal with this with you, just me and you, before something that you could have secretly healed becomes suddenly exposed.

God, I want to get this done in.

The secret place, where you can minister, where you can touch, where you can uproot, where.

You can make it right.

Because everything that we realize suddenly started secretly and built slowly a secret track.

And the next year he's at the Grammys.

And I'm not saying you'll win a Grammy, and I don't even think you really care as much as you thought you would if you did. But I am saying that it can happen suddenly, and when it does, when it does, when it does, what you have done secretly will be the treasure of the process.

In our story.

Not only is there a sudden need that they bring the prophets to speak to these three kings who are I just want to make sure you know the situation. They went through the desert and they ran out of water, and they're getting ready for a war. And that is definitely familiar to me, is that sometimes you go through you go through desert seasons on your way to fight battles, and what it takes for you to get to the battle takes so much out.

Of you.

That you definitely don't have what it takes to fight the battle. And so the prophet comes and he begins to prophesy, and he prophesies about a few different things. And I'm going to show you the contrast here. He says, first of all, the Lord came on him, and in verse sixteen he said, thus says the Lord, make this valley full of ditches.

For thus says the Lord.

Verse seventeen, you shall not see when, nor shall you see rain. Yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you, your cattle and animals may drink. Now, let's break that down a little bit. What is he saying in these two verses. Well, the first thing that he is not saying is what he is seeing. Before we get into what he says, let's get into what he isn't saying. He doesn't say the ground is dry. He doesn't say this battle is hopeless. He doesn't say

And I told you to let it flow, so I'm gonna let it flow. This is the says, that's a shift I want you to begin to make.

This is.

The says.

Both are important. This is in aables you to deal with where you are. Thus says when you get a word from God and hold on to it and believe God for it, and walk.

In it and work with it.

The Thus says the Lord is what gets you from this is to what can be. And I believe there are some people who are sitting under this message today, who have been so stuck, And this is that you forgot, Thus says. When you don't feel like a conqueror and you make yourself a victim and you forget that he called you a victor, it is just a matter of time before you feel very dry. So this is the switch you have to make. This is unfair victim language, thus says the Lord. He will reach pay me double

Because the thing about God is he will tell you to do crazy stuff that completely contradicts what makes sense in.

Your logical mind. I'll prove it. This is what the Lord says.

Everybody say, Thus says the Lord.

Verse sixteen. Put it up on the screen, because they won't believe.

It if I don't show it to him with their own eyes, Thus says the Lord. Make this valley full of ditches a ditch for what is dry. I don't need a ditch in a dry place. Not yet, but thats says, now be three.

This is a getting ready moment for you.

The salsed, Lord, I love the word of God.

How about you?

Because it's what God uses to dig in my spirit to prepare me to receive what he's bringing by his hand into my life. And no, digging doesn't feel good, not for the digger or the dirt.

Trust me, I know.

Don't you remember my story from a few weeks ago how I used to dig graves for dogs. Did you hear that story?

Were you here?

I had a job digging graves for dogs and cats, and that prepared me for ministry.

I believe it did. It prepared me for parenting. I told Abby the other day, I said, Hey, I want you to memorize this.

So if a boy ever wants to date you, here's your opening speech. Hey, before you date me, you just need to know my dad has experience doing weddings and digging grave because I'm that dude, So tell him, oh when he shows up, before we start this relationship, you need to know either way it goes, my dad can do.

What needs to be done. I'm the man for the job.

So I told her that when you start dating in about thirty five years, tell your first boyfriend that when you turn fifty. Now, listen, it's amazing what God speaks. He says, there's gonna be, there's gonna be water flowing from the land to beat them In't that a crazy place for water to flow from the same desert that they march through to begin with? Is it crazy how sometimes God will bring the greatest blessings from the driest places.

Thus, as the Lord, the same.

Comfort with which God is comforting you through this crisis in your life is going to be the same comfort that you are going to give to others when you get to your place of service. The same lessons that you're learning through this breaking seasons are going to be the same lessons that turn into blessings for the people that you help when you get through it.

That's amazing.

It's amazing what he told him to do dig ditches in the valley. It's debatable whether he meant it literally or figuratively.

I really don't care.

It speaks to a mindset for me, whether they really started digging all night to get ready for the rain, or whether he was just kind of saying it, like fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride. That doesn't necessarily mean that there is a actual seatbelt involved. It's a saying, and I think maybe dig ditches in the valley was a saying, but I know for a fact it was an expectation. And he tells them to do that. For thus, as the Lord, you shall not

Seven days is a long time.

I don't even know how they've stayed alive these seven days, if they passed through their rations. But we're talking about water, not Wi Fi. How many of you think that you would go on a fast Seven days without Wi Fi would be enough to drive you to sackcloth and ashes, just seven days without the internet connection.

We have to really realize how weak they were in.

This moment to really appreciate the value of the word that God gave. There's always this part of us that will listen to a little faith message like this and go, yeah, but my situation, huh huh. We're talking about water, no water, And I don't care how many awards you win. I don't care how many great things you accomplish. I don't care what number your network says. No water, it's over.

I thought about this sermon from multiple levels.

My buddy who wrote three hundred songs, who showed up and dug every day, my friends who sold a business for over one hundred million dollars last year, who had to go back to being a substitute teacher and was waking up at five in the morning and going to sleep at two thirty in the morning to build his company in the beginning in order to get to the point where he sold the company.

When I see somebody who God did.

Something great for them, now I've learned to ask a second question, not only what God did for them, that's my first question. The second question that I ask is I wonder what they dug for God to do that. I wonder what God dug for them to be able to have that kind of relationship.

When I see families that.

Are really happy, and I don't just mean like happy in the picture. I mean like families that are really together and they've survived some tough seasons and one of their marriages ended, and one of their kids is in a bad spot, but they're praying for it and all coming back around.

I don't just wonder what God did for them anymore.

I wonder what did they have to dig through to get to this kind of family strength. And you do yourself a real favor when you see somebody that God did something great for, and you want God to do that for you. If you get a chance, ask them, what did.

You have to dig for God to do that?

Because the water came suddenly, and if you only showed up in the sunlight of the next day, you would have mistakenly believed that the water just came when the word came. And if you just think that everybody who's blessed, and everybody who has peace, and everybody who's free, and everybody who's walking in.

A measure of the favor of God.

And everybody who has influence, if you just think that God did it, then you missed the point.

God did it when they dug it.

That's why I loved this passage because it means.

That God is sovereign. He did it.

Nobody else can make it rain, Nobody else can tell the come up now, nobody else can drive back the darkness. But God, God did it. But they dug it. God didn't write three hundred songs for Ingram.

If he did, all of them would have been smash hits. They would all been.

Number one first day out. Can you imagine God writing the song. It would dominate the charts. You could dance to it, you could sway to it, you could cry to it, you could laugh to it. No, he wrote three hundred songs, he dug it, and God did it.

In that order.

It didn't flow the moment the prophet spoke about it.

Thus says the Lord, water flow. No water will flow when you dig dig where this valley?

Wait, A valley that's dry, A valley that's low, a valley that's painful, a feeling that I can't shake. Yes, the lower and the deeper the valley, the more the water.

It can hold.

I am telling you that this is not your breaking this is your breakthrough.

This is it.

This valley shall.

The says the Lord.

Hot fog.

At least three people in say, Thus says the Lord, this is a valley. But thus says the Lord, he is my shepherd. I shall not walk, This, says the Lord.

He's making a.

Table right now.

Yeah.

And the only thing what the devil can do, says he can't take the word of God away from you, is to get you so weary and discouraged that you stop digging because it's dry. You can't dig your dry That's why I'm digging cause I'm dry. That's why I'm praising because I'm dry. That's why I'm doing it. Because I'm dry, digging or drought.

Digging or drought.

You will have to decide in this moment of your life, digging or drought.

I'll be digging.

Yeah. Yeah, because I didn't drought and I didn't like it, I throw a pity party. Nobody are svp'd. They surely didn't bring presents. I did bitterness. I did bitterness. I got down to the bottom of the bitterness, and guess.

What I found dry.

Once I drank all that bitterness, I was dry. I did blame. Y'all want me to dig or do y'all want me to dance up here? I can just dance up here. I can just dance up here.

See.

I noticed a lot of preaching is like we're dancing around what's really happening rather than digging through what's really causing it. And so this happens in parts, right, the word comes suddenly. The musician started playing, and the word came suddenly. But since we talked about the steady hand of the musician last week who.

Played the harp, we should also talk.

About the steady hand of the diggers who held the shovels. That's where sudden blessings come from, constant digging. Are you saying I have to work my way into a relationship with God because I got set free from that because

Did you say say that again?

All right? Just for you let go of how you thought it was supposed to go, And while you're at it, let go of when you thought it was supposed to get there. Because the issue isn't will God, it's when God. It's not will God, it's when God. And it doesn't just depend on what he wants to do. It depends on what you are willing to do until God does. I shared with one of the people that I'm mentored

The issue is not will God. The issue is.

Not his sovereignty. It's you're supposed to. Let me ask you a question when it flows. Are you going to be where you're supposed to be.

In the valley?

Big and bitchous in the valley transporting?

You know, that's a lot of times what parenting is.

It's just taking your kids back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, and in certain seasons they won't talk to you. How is your day fine? If you get a fine out of them, that's a grade eight response, that is a premium response in this season I'm talking about. And then they're going to be in your room at twelve thirty in the morning. Now

But if you don't show up when they say nothing, when they open up, you won't be there. Everything is like that. Everything is like that.

Everything God did in my life was something that I was digging in a dry place when he was doing it, and the same thing for Holly.

The same thing for Holly.

Usually when we meet people and we're meeting them for the first time and they're a part of the ministry, they'll go, oh, Pastor Stephen, Hey, Holly, doesn't bother me a bit. Doesn't bother me a bit. I'm like I like her more than I like me too. Hey, trust me, I'm in her fan club. I'm the president. Would you like a picture of her? And I'm exaggerating a little bit, but just to make a point that I remember when

A thirty two to a thirty eight.

That class should have been called Project thirty eight. And so so I watched it expand, like my waistline from when she did the Bible study in our house. So then I watched they said you need to do that for all the ladies of our church. And she made a little study called missus betterhef.

You know how many.

People I have overheard while they're getting their selfie with her while I'm standing over in the cornersuck of my thumb, say it saved our marriage. But it means more to me because I saw where it started real slow, and I saw that it was out of her personal dryness of where she could have felt sorry for herself.

What do I do?

What's my job? What's my value? Where's my Grammy? Where's my oscar? For best supporting role? I watched what she did, and I watched how she did it at such a level it was almost like a decimal, like you know, like you got the number, then the decimal It's almost like I watched what was behind the decimal move and I watched God add zero's to it where it was ten women, and then it was one hundred women, and then it was a thousand women. I feel God enlarging somebody's vision right now.

Not your waistline, your vision, your vision, your vision, your vision, your vision.

Come on, can you see it by the spirit? Because you won't see wind and you won't see rain. And nobody came to her with a publishing in advance and said, would you make.

A study about Wife Them? She never got the Wife Them publishing advance.

But when the pandemic hit and everybody was trapped in their homes, hating each other, hating each other a little bit on each other's nerves, we were taking a walk and I said, you know what, you've got better half. I want you to release better half into the world right now so we can help families get through this challenging time. She did that, and she did that, and it wasn't ten anymore. It wasn't even a hundred, it wasn't a thousand. It wasn't just our church, it was

For a decade ago.

That's why God did it, because you dug it.

You dug it.

God did it. You dug it.

God did it. This is gonna be your testimony, so practice. I dug it.

God did it. I dug it. God did it.

Too heavy flat with me.

You dug it.

God did it. You dug it. God did it. You dug it. God did it.

That's what you're gonna be telling people a little bit from now, secret track, after three hundred songs.

I had a secret prayer life, I had a secret reading plan.

I had a secret ambition. But I surrendered it to.

Him and I gave up on what others were gonna.

Think, and I got serious about service.

I dug it.

God did it.

I dug I'm getting hurty now.

I dug it.

God did it.

We're gonna be looking back on something not many days from now.

Tom up dung it about I dug it. God did it.

Now, let's get into this a little bit. Say, when I dig.

It, God can fill it when I feel it. When I dig it, when I don't feel it, God will fill it.

And this my friend is the word of the Lord. Why is it not here yet?

Imagine the digging that took place with people who were already dehydrated because they dug all night. They waited all night. That's a long time to dig with nothing to drink. Trust me, I've dug.

I've dug. Come on, take it from the grave, digger, I've dug, and.

I'm not filling the valley with ditches and i had better tools. So digging while you're dry, right, that sounds so inspirational, but it can be so difficult.

So they need water right now.

Why didn't God make it flow the moment Elisia spoke it? Why do we have to go all the way to verse twenty for the water to come?

Let me tell you why. Because the sun wasn't up yet. The sun wasn't up yet.

Some of the things that make you want to give up and think it's never coming. The sun isn't up yet. The sun isn't up yet. Say not loud, the sun isn't up yet. The sun isn't up yet. Imagine them digging all night, and they're dry, and they're desperate, and in many ways they're defeated. They've already expressed that the Lord has brought us here to hand us over.

So they've completely.

Lost their confidence, but they're digging anyway. Verse seventeen says, thus says the Lord. You shall not see wind, nor shall you sea rain. Yet that valley shall be filled with water. So every time they check to see, hasn't happened yet? Somebody says, no, I want to talk for a moment about what to do when you're navigating a No.

Is there wind yet?

No?

Do you feel the mist yet? No?

No, I'm not talking about a thunderstorm.

Do you even feel a drop yet?

No?

Are you this?

Some people love to ask me, are you ready to preach? I never answer that with a complete yes, because the truth of the matter is there's no real way to be ready to release the word of God. It flows when it's supposed to. God gives me what I need as I preach it. So shall it be in your life? I want you to receive this. I want you to receive this. I don't know if you're getting it. Every time they asked, did God do it yet?

While they're digging, it was a no.

Sometimes, when you get enough nos, you make know your emotional home no when, no reign, no body to talk to about this, no one that you really trust, no end in sight to this battle.

No good news. Lately I can make it really good.

No deposits in the account, no matter how many times the day you check it. You ever just check, wondering if something happened overnight, like.

Maybe I don't know. God is big, Maybe the bank made in error.

Maybe Y two K will be twenty three years late and it is all get wiped out. Let me just check this one more time. No, I see youse refreshing your phone. No, maybe they text No, well, maybe they know. And the way you negotiate that no, which is a type of value of its own, is intent.

It's so important. Do you make that know your home.

Or do you dig through it to find what God will do? If you don't, let the know that life has told you become the final word over your life. In verse twenty, we get a very different word. And what we've basically done is we've gone from no wind, everybody say no wind, say.

That la, to say no wind. Put it in the chat, say no wind.

The refreshing that you wanted didn't come. The momentum that you wanted didn't come. How many can relate to this? Just put a raised hand up in the room or in the chat. I don't care how you do it, but put it up. Say yeah, no, Wind, I don't feel it right now. No rain, that's the resource that they need. So sometimes it's going to come in this way. You are not going to get the feeling that you want, the resource that you want, and it's going to be a no.

Now.

The way that you negotiate this no has everything connected to what is next. It does not just depend on what God can do. It depends on what you will do until God does.

That's what it depends on.

Right now, what will you do until God does?

And I've got another.

Confession of faith that God gave me, And it might be for somebody that I may have doubts, and I may have disappointments, and I may have a lot of knows. There may be three hundred of them. There may be three hundred more. There may be rejections in my futures and failures in my future. I'm sure that there are. If I keep living, there will be. There may be people who don't like me. There may be people who turn on me. There may be dryness in my future.

Somebody shout he knows.

I don't, But he knows Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven.

For I know the plans I have for you. He knows.

He knows what he's gonna do, who he's gonna do it through, at the exact time he's going to do it.

And until he shows me.

How it's gonna happen, I'll be digging put this on the screen until God does it. So I believe He's gonna give me the joy. I believe he's gonna give me the second chance. I believe he's gonna show me the next chapter. But until he does, I'll be digging. Cause guess what, when they dug it, God did it. Shout it when they dug it, God did it.

So give me my next lie. This is what I mean.

I'll be digging until God does. That's why I doug because he puts something in me. That's why I dug because He has something for me. Don't you get it?

Hi has not seen and he has not heard.

And neither has an answer.

It's to your heart what God can do?

So what's he gonna do? While be digging until God does? And if it takes.

Another night, and if it takes another year, and if it takes another prayer, and if.

It takes another song, and if it.

Takes another step back, that's all right.

Dig it down deep, mock bill, dump strong. I will not fool.

High five everybody you feel like high five minutes say Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't, Dick Tilly doesn't.

You need water?

All right?

Weeping may endure for a knife, but Jo.

Sho soush put it in the chap with fourteen os sho shun.

You can dig it this right.

Now, open your mouth and pray him jo.

Like coming, shot I come, or shoot like come him and streaks come suddenly.

Verse twenty. We went from no to watch this now that's just no, with something after it now, No.

No, now now now now now now, I'm digging now for what I will see later.

Now I need three people I can freach too, God said, no, is just now waiting for what's next. When you get done digging, you know how strong your foundation is gonna be, and when it gets there, you'll be ready for it.

That's why I'm getting my spending under control.

So when God wants to make me a steward to bless more people than just my family. I started budgets when we were broke. You didn't hear a word. I just said for the last hour. I started my budget when we were broke. Because if God moves the zero to the other side of the decimal, what am I going to do with it?

That's a ditch.

Now there is a decision to be made on your part. And then there is a destiny that has been created in God's heart. Because the Bible said, what now it happened when in the morning, Why did God wait all night. Why didn't God make it happen right when you needed it?

Why?

Well, the Bible said, Now, it happened in the morning when the grain offering was offered. That suddenly, but it's not sudden. We've been digging all night.

It looked sudden if you were watching it, but it was steady if you were digging in. Isn't that the truth?

Suddenly water came by way of eating, and the land was filled with water. I still don't know why would God wait until the morning when they were about to die through the night.

But I read the next verse. Watch what happened next. When all the mobites.

That's the enemy, heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. All the enemies who were able to bear arms and older were gathered. They stood at the border. They thought they were about to kill the people of God. But get ready to shout shout now, no, no, no, no, I want you to shout the word now now, yeah, yeah, okay, I'll be clear in the future. When they saw oh oh oh. By the way, edom means red. When they saw the water on the other side, the enemies, they

The kings have.

Surely struck swords and have killed one another. Now therefore moab to the spoil. So the enemy rushes in. But it wasn't blood. It was the meeting of the flood and the sun that came together. So I picture God all night long that the prophet spoke there will be a flood, and God is saying, not yet, flood.

The sun isn't up yet.

See, you can't flow just yet, because when the sun comes up, the sun is going to hit the flood in just the right way, at just the right time, to confuse your enemy, at just the right place, at just the right time.

And God says it.

Will flow when it's supposed to.

You're right on schedule. God has not abandoned you.

The sun is coming up over your life, and God says, it's.

Time for you to dig again. It's time for you to sing again. It's time for you to rejoice again.

Let's take twenty seconds and do it now, begin to praise.

Him all of a sudden, like a flood, all of a sudden, All of a sudden, God said the sun.

You can rise, waters, you can flow.

I release healing in your life. I release joy in your life. I release freedom in your life.

Now, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, all of a sudden.

But even if it doesn't, I'll be digging until he doesn't.

All of a sudden.

Whoa all of a sudden.

But even if it doesn't, I'll still be digging until he doesn't.

All of a sudden, Son works.

On a cycle, scene of facada, but he then when it doesn't, I'll still be digging until he doesn't.

Oh of a.

Sada cats, all of a suda, leave it in buddy it he doesn't, I'll still be digging. I still Hollo Sun. I ensure you're in the name of the Lord the Sunny. Dig until my God.

He doesn't dig until God, by Signy's sign, he.

Does, and.

He's gonna do.

Hear me, He's good.

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