Don't Miss Your Turn

Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and.

This is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving.

In your life. Enjoy the message.

If you wouldn't mind standing, I'd like to preach, and I want to read the scripture while you stand. And I want to just share a simple message today from First Samuel classic text. God has given me a fresh insight on First Samuel chapter seventeen, and I just want to give you verses forty eight through fifty one.

And I love this little Bible story.

That's the one where David kills Goliath spoiler alert. And I think there'll be some things in this message today that will be pertin it to your personal life as well as our plight. Is a nation, so I like it. Lean in and listen carefully. I believe there is a word from the Lord.

In this house. How many are ready to receive it? Come on? Are you excited? How many want to hear from God? Today?

As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line. God's people don't run from trouble. We run toward it in the name of the Lord. He ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him, Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead and he fell face

Okay.

And this might be something that your wife says to you when you're driving. You might have said this to your husband today trying to find elevation Valentine or whatever campus you're at. But would you look at your neighbor and give them my title. Say neighbor, don't miss your turn. Look at your other neighbor and say you might miss your turn. Pay attention, don't miss your turn. Amen, you may be seated.

Thank you, Worship team, Thank you worship team. All are worship teams. Oh man, so much I want to say to you. Let me just look at you real quick.

It's a new building, so I don't know where everybody's sitting and used to having people all my familiar faces.

Okay, I'm looking for my love. I'm looking for my love this school.

Those of you at the other campuses, you can't see this, but the way we've set up the room is very strategic. We have it where everybody can keep an eye on each other and monitor them to make sure that they are paying attention and being responsive in the sermon. So, those of you on my right, if these people over here start looking like they're dozing off, they start looking bored, you could shoot a spitball at them. You can do

In fact, it's going to be a competition. We're going to get to see over.

The course of the coming weeks and months which section loves Jesus the most, and so it should be interesting.

But I just want to share a little bit with you today.

I want you to get something on your mind as we look at this classic text in the Valley of Elaw, where the giant from God, who some say was nine three inches tall, has come to defy the armies of the Living God, and a boy named David decides to do something about it. I want you to think if you would just for a moment about something in your life that you almost missed out.

On, and that.

You you you came really close to missing out on it, but you know you did it, and now that you're looking back on it, you are like, oh, I'm so glad that I didn't let fear or apathy or laziness or other people keep me from doing that, because I would have missed so much. In fact, some of you, to listen to other people, you never gonna come to the church, you know what I'm saying.

And you would have missed out because it is a great place. It's great people. I said, this is a great place with great people. Come on, y'all, let's break it in this building.

Don't be looking at me stuffy, Amen. Something you would have I missed out on Holly, of course, is of thinking about if she had said no instead of I do, how much she would have missed.

She would have missed her miracle.

She would have missed her man, she would have missed her moment. Aren't you glad you didn't miss it? You know different things in life, opportunities that you had that scared you at the time. Amy, Think about if when I took unk chunks out the Golden Corral and said start the church with me, Hattie said, I.

Don't want to do it.

I want to keep on working physical therapy, rubbing on old people's backsides.

I want to keep serving. Then nothing wrong being a physical therapist. I'm just having a little humor here with you.

But just imagine you wouldn't even be here on the front row watching.

The grand opening of a location.

Last night, I gave away almost a quarter of a million dollars, because that's what you do when you move into.

A thirty million dollar building. You give away quarter of a million dollars just to make the devil mad, to let him know that the church is on the move.

As a matter of fact, I want to make a prophetic announcement. This church is not gonna miss our turn We are determined in this season in our cities to.

Shine like never before.

The world needs us now and we're not gonna miss.

Our turn out.

I'm not a big believer in having regrets. I think that what's better is if you can learn the lesson, get the benefit of the lesson without the burden of the regret. You know what I'm saying, get the burden of the lesson or the benefit or whatever I said of the lesson j LA, without the burden of the regret.

What I do believe in is the power of pregret. I made up the word. I believe that.

If you can learn how in your life to experience what you would experience if you did something dumb in your emotions without having to do the dumb thing and deal with the consequences and the disaster of your decision, I think it's.

A good thing. I might write a book about this, the power of pregret.

You know, so you can learn how to discern guys that you shouldn't date by seeing the patterns that he's like the last guy, he's like the last guy, and if I go out with him, and if I sleep with him, I'm going to end up having to be in the same cycle. And so I think there's something to learn from the things that we've missed out on, the things that we've almost missed out on. You may think this is a strange introduction, and I forgot that

In our life, setbacks we've experienced.

On the other side of disappointment, often we can see that our disappointments led us to our destiny. I'm preaching better than you're talking back to me. I'll give you a minute to catch up. Is that some of the things that we thought we wanted were the things that God had to withhold to make room for the things that we ultimately needed. It is easier to clap about

But you weren't so sure about that.

While it was happening. You weren't so sure about that during the divorce. But now after the divorce you can say, Okay, well, you know I didn't want the divorce, and I'm not saying the divorce was God's will, but I can see how God's even using that now in my life.

But when you're going.

Through it, it feels like death and you can't.

Even see any life after this.

You can't see how the fact that they laid you off from that job was actually preparing you for something, teaching you some things, gonna get you some discipline in some areas, and that later on a door would open up that God.

Would use to move you into new dimensions.

But you can't see the destiny in the face of the disappointment. David is an illustration of how to deal with disappointment.

I believe you want to know the truth about it.

David was more than just a shepherd, more than just a giant killer. He was a future king in training. I know many of you know this, but for the benefit of those who may not have gotten to go to vacation Bible school, let me share a little bit of the context for Samuel sixteen.

Can I teach you a little bit? Can I teach you a little bit.

On the day that Samuel came to town to replace Saul, because the Lord was grieved that he made Psaul king, because although Saul had the stature of a king, he didn't have the.

Heart of a shepherd. God give us shepherds.

Even in our nation, in political seats of power, that will have a heart for your people. Give us pastors and fathers and leaders that.

Will have a heart for your people.

And so God said, I'm looking for a man after my own heart. Well, when Samuel came to town with this horn of oil, which was symbolically.

Poured on the head of the next king, he.

Went to Jesse's house because that's where God told him to go. He said, the next king is in Jesse's house. But he didn't tell him which of Jesse's eight sons was going to be the king. Because sometimes God will give you enough of the details to get you in the right area, but he won't give you enough specifics where you don't need him to show you what to do next.

Sometimes we want God to show us.

Everything about our life and our decisions, but if he did, we wouldn't need him. So he gives us enough light to know the next step, but not enough light where we won't need him to guide us along the path. So he goes to Jesse's How Samuel the prophet goes to Jesse's house and he and he looks at all the sons of Jesse. Eliab was the oldest one. One's name was Shemma. All these boys that were so impressive.

To mention his name.

He calls him, I want to read this to you is in verse eleven, Chapter sixteen, Verse eleven, Jesse said, well, there's the youngest. There's the youngest. He doesn't identify him according to his potential, just his current position.

You know, life will do this.

To you, try to label you according to your educational background, according to your ethnicity, according to whether you're a man or a woman, according to your life will try to label.

You this way.

Well, there's the youngest, but he's been in the sheep. And Samuel said, sin for him. We won't sit down until he arrives. And the one that they didn't.

Even think to bring in the room, zoom, was the one.

That God had chosen from the foundation of the world.

I want to make an announcement.

You can't disappoint what God has appointed. You can't disappoint when God calls your name, when God gets ready to use you, when God gets ready to do work in your life, when God gets ready to raise you up, when God gets ready to send you forward, when God gets ready to stir up your gift, when God gets ready to.

Release your purpose. This new stage breach is pretty good. I feel good about it.

Shut somebody next to you and tell him he's calling your name, and see. I love God because he knew how to find David even in the field.

He didn't need David to be in the lineup. Do you know what.

You don't have to position yourself in front of people to be used by God. You don't have to convince a committee that you're good enough for grace of God.

How many are grateful.

But God chooses sobidly whom he wills, and uses sofidly whom he wills.

And when God gets.

Ready to use you, there's no devil in hell.

They just stop. Touch your neighbors say don't.

Miss it, don't miss your turn and see. If it had been up to people, David wouldn't have gotten his turn. But when God says it's your time, he knows exactly where to find you. Don't stress out about it. Don't worry about whether or not people appreciate you. Don't even worry about whether they notice you. Don't even worry about whether they call you by your correct name.

It doesn't matter.

You cannot disappoint what God has appointed. But if David hadn't been in the field keeping sheep, he wouldn't have been prepared to lead people what he's what he should have could have would have seen as being very insignificant, was exactly the thing that he needed to prepare him

And his driver making a trip.

Perhaps Deniman Marcus, come on, if God told you you would be the next king, wouldn't you want to go try on some robes and some crowns.

Size forty two short?

Wouldn't you want to try on some versace crowns Armani wrote, I need, I need to get ready for this thing. And sometimes we expect that when God announces a change in our life, it's going to be activated immediately, and we get confused when God says it's your time, but he makes us wait our turn. And sometimes God is doing things that It was on that day that David was announced to be a king, but it would be many years later.

That he would wear the crown.

You know, when you give your life to Christ in a moment, you're saved in a moment you're forgiven, and a moment you're cleansed, and a moment you're redeemed. All of those things are true of you immediately. All of the changes that those new realities are meant to produce in your life happened not immediately, but gradually.

You know what I see people do?

I see people become very discouraged in the process of awaiting the change that God initiated, because we're a little bit confused. I remember Elijah was so confused when we gave the money to build Elevation Valentine.

We bought the land back in twenty twelve, and Elijah was.

Six years old at the time, and he gave an offering. Our whole family was supposed to give, and so I let Elijah give seventy dollars of my money that we pretended was his.

It's like all the money that he thinks he has. And after he gave the.

Money, he said, so, Daddy, we're having church at Elevation Valentine next Sunday, because in his mind I gave money. And so now now it's four years later now and here we are finally. We bought the land. In one season.

We built the building in the next.

And sometimes you walk away from your initial investment because you don't see the immediate development. I'm trying to say, sometimes you give up on your calling too easily.

And you miss your turn.

David didn't go on, try on crowns and practice is king wave and practice signing kingly autographs. David went back to the sheep field to do what he was doing before until one day, everybody say, one day, one day he was given an.

Assignment by his father.

His father turns to him one day, and I don't know if a lot of people know this part of the story, because everybody knows about the sling shot, and everybody knows about Goliath, and everybody knows about well how Goliath fell.

And I'll tell you what, if you.

Ever want to be a preacher, you should preach about Goliath. People love to hear sermons about Goliath because everybody has something in their life that's bigger than them. Everybody has something in their life that's been intimidating them. Everybody has a fear and anxiety and addiction.

I could go around the room.

I think I could probably point in people and look at them long enough and guess what your goliath is? Some of y'all spend too much. Some y'all eat too much, some of y'all talk too much. Some of y'all chudged too much. Can I keep going? I won't do it, but I could. And everybody has a Goliath right preach about Goliath and makes for good preaching, man, And Goliath is going to fall down, and you could kill the giant.

I believe that, man.

But can I tell you something that fascinating to me? If the Lord spoke to me. Lord spoke to me, I was studying this text. Lord said to me, most of the people you're talking to never even get to Goliath. You're trying to teach them how to kill an enemy that they're never even going to meet. So when he said that to me, you know, not out loud, it just kind of this impression I got.

I was like, what do you mean?

And I went back to the text and I remembered this. I saw this back in college. In fact, I used to share about it in college because I thought it was important to talk about faithfulness in the small things. And it was one day everybody say one day, say a loud or say one day touch your neighbors.

Say this could be your day for a turnaround, now, Jesse. This is for Samuel seventeen seventeen.

It says that this giant from Gaff named Goliath was confronting and defying the people of God for forty days, and every day he would talk them.

But Jesse said to his son David, huh.

Verse seventeen is kind of confusing, because Jesse must have forgotten that he was talking to a future king, because what he asked him to do was so menial. He said, take this etha of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers, and hurry to their camp.

And David could have said, who do you think you're talking to?

Didn't you hear what Samuel said about me? I am a man of potential, and I.

Don't have time to run your little errands.

I'm not trying to take bread and cheese to the same brothers who didn't even bring me into the room when Samuel came to choose a king. But this is the test, see to see if David will do the basic things. Sometimes we want God to use us to do a big thing, and we won't even do the basics.

Talk to me somebody, how in the world.

Can God use us to do something big and we won't even do something basic. I love David's heart because the story could have stopped right here if he had said, I'm not doing that. I'm a king, I'm not doing that. I'm not your demeaning to me. I'm not doing that. You know all the ways that we disobey God, these little things that he asked us to do. Call your sister and tell her you're sorry. Reach out to somebody who looks different than you and listen to them about their struggle.

It's funny to me.

Some of us want to kill Goliath, but we don't want to tend sheep, and we don't want to make deliveries.

We want to see big victories.

But how in the world can God use us to kill giants if we can't even follow simple instructions.

The Bible says.

That David, and I think this is why God used him. You know, every time we see David in the scripture, he's moving now. He says at first though, that he ran to Goliath. But you got to understand before he ran to Goliath. Look at verse twenty. It says early in the morning, David left the flock in the care of.

A shepherd, loaded up and set out.

Now here's what David didn't know at the time, because we know it and it's much easier to interpret what God is going to do when you know the ending. But can I tell you something David did not know that this was Fir Samuel seventeen.

From his perspective, this was just another day.

Sometimes God raps destiny in what we perceive is just another day. The same day that he was told to take bread to the battle lines was the same day.

He stood over Goliath.

But he didn't know that, and he would have missed his turn if he did not obey. And so for me, I'm asking God to use me in big ways, but will I obey him in the small ways?

And you know, I bet if you will pray, God show me.

A small way, because we all right now are concern about things in our nation. Josh van Allman was telling me. He's an officer, he serves. How long have you been Charlotte Police. How long have you been on the force. He's been twelve years. He's also been serving in the church for all ten and.

A half years.

Josh drives me to church every week, So I can look at my notes in the car, and so I thought that's a safer way than me driving and looking at my notes, and so I can get ready on the way.

And he was telling me just.

This week about people black people, white people coming up to him and buying lunch for him. I thought that was amazing. I thought that just he said it was a small thing, he said, but to me, that just went a long way. I know his wife appreciates it. He also told me how somebody spat on him this week while he was walking down the street with his little girl.

And so here's the thing. We can get up in.

Our churches and preach really big stuff, you know, deep stuff, reconciliation, high sounding stuff, unity, But I think probably our small.

Acts of actual love go a lot farther than our loud screaming preaching.

Like I'm doing right now.

And God wants to know, will you do the small things? Sometimes the blessing of God is in doing the thing that seems beneath you. We always want to look beyond, God says, sometimes it's in doing the thing that seems beneath you that releases the blessing.

We're on vacation this past.

Month and we rode our bikes over to the farmer's market. Because we're such a charming family, we rode our bike over to the farmer market there in the little town where we were staying.

And Holly's idea and.

When we walked in, just tell you the story kind of how it happened.

Was that air love you man.

While we walked in, this girl who was behind a booth. She was selling cupcakes and and candy and other sugar confection items.

Name was Adie May, Adie May.

And I'm going to tell you how I know her name in a minute.

But she she started screaming behind her.

But oh my god, I said, sorry to bother you, but I'm like a total fangirl.

I love your podcast, I love your turns. Can I a sealthie? I was like, yes, of course, to take a somethie. And she was super nice.

So we stood there for a minute, talked to her, found out you know that where I was from, she also had some family from there.

All stuff.

We was talked from minute and she goes, boy is going to be so excited so jealous when I.

Tell him I met you. I was like really, and I said cool, who's your pastor? She said his name. I never heard his name and she said, I said, that's great, and she said, uh.

And in my church, she said, we're having holy convocation this week.

You should come.

And I'm thinking, in the back of my mind, girl, i am on vacation.

I am not coming to your complication, not this week. I love the Lord, I love his church, but I am chilling.

So I'm just thinking that right, And I'm like, oh, that's great. I'll come in complications, complications, that's great. And so she goes, yeah, it's convocation, and she listed off the people who were preaching and.

The dates and all that, and one of the guys.

She mentioned is a preacher that I greatly respect and I actually have been wanting to meet him.

And so I was like, well, that's cool. And you know, something told me just write it down, just write it down.

You know, sometimes you just get this little thing and you're not even sure if it's God.

You're not ready to say.

And the Lord spoke to me, just like, just write it down, just a little thought, just write this down, just a little thing.

Everybody say little things. You talked about the little things. So I just write it down.

And uh, you know, and and I wrote it down the dates and everything like that, and I walked away, and she came back over to our table. She was so nice, and she brought all these uh all these cupcakes and candies and sugar confection items over to us and she was like, I just brought something for your kids. And I was like, thanks, and uh, you've can come watch them.

And I just brought you something. It was so sweet, right, And she was like.

And I just called my pastor and and she said and he and he and he told me that we had actually invited you to come speak at our convocation, but your office told us that you were.

On vacation this week.

And so I said, well, obviously you can see that I am there was.

We really are on vacation.

So anyway, I texted Jess and said, hey, just I said, reach out to this pastor, the one that was coming to town and on this certain date, I said, and see if he wants to meet up for lunch.

We'd been trying to meet each other before and we didn't get to.

I said, just tell him I'm close by to the church he's going to be preaching at and I'm not going to the church service, but just tell him if he wants to eat after before church, I would love to have a meal with him, and just let me know.

It doesn't matter, just let me know. I don't just let me know. And so, you know, some time passes and everything just says I'll let you know, and I forget all about it.

I forget all about the whole.

Holy convocation among the beach.

Then one day, it's about three o'clock in the afternoon, Jess text me and says, Hey, the pastor was going to come and meet with you, but he actually his back went out in the airport and they had to take him in for emergency surgery and he's not even going to be able to make the trip, so he's not going.

To be able to have dinner with you tonight. And I'm like, that's cool.

When I get the text from Jess, I'm reading all this, I'm thinking that's cool.

Moment I put my phone away, something fuck to me again.

I'm not sure as God at this point, and I don't even really want to hear from God at this point, but something fuck to me and said, remember they had wanted you to come preach at the convocation. Call the church, and to which I said, Lord, I don't even know the phone number, to which the Lord said, google it.

So I'm like, what am I gonna do. I'm gonna call the church and say, hey, I never invite myself to go preach somewhere. That's kind of creepy. Hey I'm gonna come preaching your church. I don't do that. I don't do that. But the Lord was like, you do what I tell you to do.

So so I by this time, it's three thirty and I'm thinking, man, they've already got a speaker.

There's thing is tonight, but I'll call. This is stupid.

I'm called church, called church, looked up the number, and it rings and rings and rings and rings.

It rings like five times.

I'm like, Lord, didn't tell me to leave a voicemail, so I promise you. On the sixth ring, God picks up, says the name of the church and how can.

I help you. I'm like crap, and I said, hey, man, this is my name.

Is Stephen Ferdick. Come over in Charlotte. And I was just calling, I know, to talk to the bishop. I know he's not available. I'm sure he's not available. But you don't have to give him a message or anything. He's no, no, no, I'll give him a message. What's a message?

I said, well, you just tell him. Here's my phone number. I'm calling about the revival. If he wants to call me back. He doesn't have to call me back. You probably have time to call me back or anything like that. Just calling about the revival.

A few minutes later, the pastor and he goes, are you serious?

Are you serious that you're calling me right now?

I said, yeah, I said, I met Addie May over.

At the Farmer's market.

And I told her that I was here on vacation, and she told.

Me that you would invite me. I know you probably don't want.

To do this, and I know you got to cover, but I heard that your speaker is back, went out and all this, and I'm sure you got it cover by now, but I just felt like prompted to tell you that if you want me to come preach, and I'll preach. I'm on vacation and everything like that, but you want to come preach, he said.

We were praying this morning.

He said, I've had the most crazy week you can imagine.

I've done three funerals. This week.

I called five of my friends and asked them could they come preach tonight.

None of them could come.

You are the only speaker that we invited to their convocation that couldn't come. He said, would you come tonight and preach for us? He said, because I was so stressed out when I was praying and I got up from prayer and one of my staff members looked at me and said, don't worry about it.

Pastor. God has a ram in the bush. And I said, well, I'm your ram, baby. What time do I show up at the church.

Where is the church? I don't even know where the church is. He said, don't worry about it. I'll send you a car. I'll pick you up. And man, I'm gonna tell you. They picked me up and I went to church. I told him, I said, I don't have any church clothes now, because this is holy convocation. People got church hats and church dresses. I said, man, all I have is T shirts and skinny jeans and Yeezies.

And he said this all right, I'll wear my jeans and my Jeezy's too, he'd get them Jesus. I said all right.

I said, I'll be there and man, it was amazing. And he got up and he told his church, he said, our speaker.

Is not here.

And they all moaned and growned because they all loved that preacher couldn't make it.

And they all moaned and grown and he said, and that's y'all's problem.

Some of y'all come for the personality, oh that you come for the principles of the presence of God and the power.

Of the man. He laid them out, and then he told the story.

And just I don't even know how well I preached that night or anything like that. I mean, I gave it everything I had the best I could on short notice in my ye'zis and my T shirt at.

The Holy Convocation.

But God shoot up in an amazing when you know that, Pastor said to me. He said, in twenty seven years of ministry, I've never been more convinced of God's favor on my life than to know that he heard my prayer.

But I told you that story not because not because I'm so obedient. I didn't even want to do it. It turned out to be a blessing. I would have missed it.

I would have missed the blessing if I would have ignored the impression, but really I would have missed the blessing of Addie made hadn't brought over a cupcake. When Addie May showed up to work that day, she had no idea that she.

Was the answer to her church's prayers. Do you see what I'm trying to say to you.

I'm trying to say that God wants to use.

You right where you are, with what you have.

David said, I don't have much. All I got is a sling in a stone. But in the name of the Lord.

Goliath, when I do what I do with what I have, you've kind of down. And I declare that when the people of God do what we can in the.

Power we have, colia must fall.

Somebody shout about it.

Touch your neighbors said, don't miss your turn, don't miss your turn. If David had not been willing to do the simple thing, he never would have seen the supernatural thing. And I guess why the Lord put this message on my heart. Everyone's standing is because in our nation right now, there's a lot of supernatural breakthroughs.

That we need.

Systemic racism is a real issue.

There are epidemics in our land and we're praying to God about stuff I want to get beyond that. Even I want to get beyond that. See.

I was getting this message ready while I was still in Australia and I got on the plane.

I had my little message ready when I landed.

While I was in the air, young men gets shot in Paton Rouge.

Young men gets shot in Minnesota. And I look at that and I was like, Okay. I was thinking, I need to change my message now.

I've prepared a message on David and Goliath before I left Australia. I came back to America and I realized everything that's going on, and I thought, well, this isn't an appropriate message anymore.

The Lord said, yeah, it is.

You're just looking at Goliath on the wrong level. When we preach about Goliath, we make it a personal issue, your addiction, your struggle.

Your debt, your depression. But when I was reading it this time, the Lord showed.

Me Goliath wasn't a personal issue for David. It was a national issue that was keeping.

The whole nation deadlocked in the stranglehold of fear.

Something interesting happened just before David went to fight Goliath. The Bible says that when David showed up that day.

You know, he's got his cheese and his bread. He's just doing a simple thing.

Don't think that because you can't affect something at the highest level of power, that God can't use you in a great way. David wasn't even in the army and he won the war. I said, he wasn't even in a uniform. He didn't even have a weapon that was fit for combat.

And he's the one who brought down the giant. So so David.

Here's this giant taunting the armies of God.

And he says, what's up with this? This isn't right.

He can't talk that way about my God. He can't talk that way about my people. He can't talk that way. This isn't right. And his brother overheard him, Eliah, the tall one, and he comes up to David, and you know, we actually accused this David when Eliah verse twenty eight, David's older brother, the one that they thought was fit to be a king, the one that you would have

And with whom did you leave those few shit in the wilderness. Do you know what.

If David and this really spoke to me. And I didn't say this in my message last night, but I wanted to.

Say it today.

If David would have listened to Eliab, he never would have even seen Goliath. If David would have fought with his brother, he never would have killed his enemy. Do you know what I think the devil tries to do to keep us from being victorious as a church, as a people, as a nation, as the body of Christ. He wants to keep us so divided, fighting each other that we never even engage our real enemy. We're not fighting each other, We're not against each other.

You're my brother, you're my sister. We're in this together.

If we're gonna oh my darkness, we gotta stand together. So David has his eyes on something bigger, and the Bible says in verse twenty nine, I close with this. Now what have I done? Can't I even speak? And then he did something much. He then turned away to someone else. He then turned away. Touch your neighbor one more time. This will be the last time, and tell him.

Don't miss your turn.

See, because if you get distracted by Eliab. If you get distracted by what the media presents to us, that's not reality, that's an image that is projected to.

Sell us on fear.

If you'll fight Eliath, you'll miss Goliath. But I feel a turn coming in the Body of Christ, and we will stand together and we will turn together.

I hear second Chronicles say, if my.

Vegle who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my.

Face and turn and turn and turn. I want to plead with the Body of Christ, don't miss your ter. You are the light of the world, and you are the sought of the earth. And Goliath, my small in the name.

Of the Lord.

In justice, my small in the name on the law prejudice mys all, and.

How the Lord come on out the church comedy. That's all.

Name my neighbors, Jesus, kind of the Friend.

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