He Answered

Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik.

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.

There have been so many times where God gave our church a song and two years later, five years later, ten years later, somebody will come up to me and say, that song got me through my cancer treatments, that song.

Got me through my prison sentence.

When they send us videos of those prisoners singing trust in God, and even people who aren't in a physical prison, people will say that thing got me through some sleepless nights. I listened to the Blessing when I was dealing with incredible anxiety and fear.

And all of these songs.

And this Thursday, you have a opera tunity to be a part of that. So I'm not telling you that because we need people to attend.

It's always pretty full. I just didn't want you to miss it and not know what was happening. Now.

I take my job seriously, and my job is to put God's words in people's heart.

That's my job. That's my job.

Whenever I'm not preaching to you or studying to preach to you, I'm usually humming a melody into a song, changing a lyric for the fifteenth time, so the team has to learn it at nine to thirteen before we try it the first time.

And it's all the same thing.

I want you to have watched this a new loop in your life. That's what I'm preaching about today. That's what I preached about last week. Our series shown the graphic. It's called same lies, new loops and meditating on word of God is hard when we have so much noise in our world.

Isn't it.

Y'all got sit there and act like it's not noisy in your in your mind. So a noisy mind needs a new loot, something else to latch onto, so you don't go absolutely crazy with temptation and with anger or with shame. And one thing that I love to do is when we can get a meditation from God's word and then God gives us a melody to go with it, it helps us to remember it in the hard times. Today, I want to share with you from a psalm Psalm one hundred and fourteen. We read it in our family

Everything else. Everybody says it, and.

It goes God's were last forever Psalm fourteen.

I pick up in verse five. You're gonna like this one.

Wow, Why was it s that you fled? Why Shordan did you turn back? Why mountains did you leap like rams? You hills like lambs? To us, that's kind of strange imagery.

First of all, he's talking about the things that God did in Israel's past. This is a passover psalm that they would use to remember how God brought them out of Egypt. How many of you remember when God brought you out of something in your own life? So now he's taunting their trauma. Why is it c that you fled? Why Jordan did you turn back. I gotta say something about that verse. Did you know you have a god who when he speaks to the sea, it sprints to

That's how powerful he is. I gotta go faster. That's only one verse.

Verse six, Why mountains did you leap like rams? Did you know you have a god who when he speaks, mountains leap. I know we're used to talking about mountains moving, but this is a different picture. He said, Not only do they move, the mountains leap when he speaks. The obstacle moves when he speaks. It can happen quickly and suddenly and irreversibly and dramatically when he speaks mountains leap when he speaks sea split. And I'm trying to read my but I'm excited about He's been doing it for

Say amen to that.

Somebody, Yeah, I want to take those two words from verse four. Put it up again, please, Jesus answered. The title I'd like to preach to you from today.

Is two words. He answered. He answered, yeah, He answered, turn around and hug five people on your way to your seat.

Say I'm so glad, he answered, I'm glad he picked up my call, my collect call.

I'm glad he paid the price for me. He answered.

I'm grateful because he answered, I'm standing here today because he answered, He answered, I asked him for another day, and he gave it. He answered, I.

Asked him to help me keep my mind together.

Somebody put it in the chat, say, he answered, Say it out loud at every location. He answered, aren't you glad you have a God who answers prayers.

Come on, it's not a rhetorical question. Aren't you glad you have a god? Put it in the chat?

Say I'm glad, he answers yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Sometimes other people don't, he answered, Sometimes other people turned away, he answered, now king of rhetorical questions, I love the way psalmone fourteen puts the truth across. It was fresh to me. And again, we have a family Bible Club, and we landed in this just at the time that my message was coming together. Thank you Lord for speaking to me in my personal life so I could share it with others. I want to give it to you

I don't know. I'm just thinking of a few before I came out. Oh, here's one.

One time Elijah did something that Holly kept telling him not to do, and she kept.

Telling them, kept telling them, and she finally goes, how.

Many times do I have to tell you? And he goes three times? There was a rhetorical question. It wasn't a literal question. It was a rhetorical question. And by framing this question and as rhetorical about the Red Sea or the mountains that God moved for his people, God is not only asking a rhetorical question, but he's asking

I'm going to give you three points today. Somebody say, he answered.

Put the title of my sermon right there in the comments.

Please just put he answered in all caps.

And of course when he answers in Psalm one fourteen, he says, tremble earth at the presence of the Lord. Now that's how it happened, the presence of the Lord. Let me put all this together really quickly. Why did the sea sprint when God's people were passing through? That's a historical event, a rhetorical question. Why did the mountain move when God told it to? What about those impossible things that he did in your life?

It's rhetorical, it's also historical.

And if you look back over your life, you'll see that his presence was everywhere. You didn't always recognize it because you were hurting too bad, but his presence was there with you. You couldn't quite see it because there were enemies surrounding your table, but he prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemies.

Who was it that told the sea to split, the mountain to move? It was God.

It's a rhetorical question. It's a historical question. I like them to bring my teaching screen out please. Everybody clapped to give me the courage to draw a.

Little bit today. See how supportive the ladies are When.

I I think I'm going to reflect myself next year. It looked so fun, looks so fun.

Okay, I heard you, I heard you. I am not going to answer that. You hear what they said.

No, we want Holly, we want Holly.

I know me too.

Just to get you back in the mindset of this message, I drew a loop and I talked about how the enemy is always speaking and so is God.

Same lies. Let's abbreviate new loops.

This is the process of transformation. Does that kind of look like a brain?

A little bit like? Not really?

The renewal of your mind to stop repeating the same stuff over and over again that leads you to defeat and start repeating what leads you to victory. Victory and defeat are both found in the repeat.

That doesn't only rhyme. That's really good. The victories you.

Experience in your life or even in your physical body, the victories of losing weight, the victories of building strength. It's found in the repeat. So are the defeats you lift weight weight one time every four months. And you only lift one weight four times every one time every four months, we will see that result. If you lift it every day forty times, we will see that if you get the right thing on repeat. Oh God, I

I'm renewing my strength by what I do every day.

I am renewing my strength every time I come to church. Give yourself a hand for coming to your class today, for tuning into this message today, because this, for me is not just a church service, This is a new loop. This for me is retraining my brain to move away from the lies and believe what God says about me.

Not only is.

Your victory found in your repeats, though, but your defeat is often found in your repeats. What you say to yourself over and over again that disagrees with what God already spoke about you before you were ever born will leave you feeling weak. You're not really weak, you just are repeating the wrong thing. Repeat the right thing you'll be stronger. This is not to say that our praise and pursuit of God will preclude all of our proclivities towards sin.

In other words, I'm not saying it's going to be easy. And think about this way.

I read to you what seemed to be a random verse from Matthew chapter four, where Jesus answered and said, it is written man will not live on bread alone, but every word that comes from the mouth of God.

You know where Jesus was when he said that the wilderness the wilderness.

I want to show this to you. You're not going to believe. This is in the Bible in Matthew four, verse one. Turn there if you'd like, or just will put it up on the screen for you. Matthew chapter four, verse one. The Bible says this, Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness. That's the part I thought would shock you, because I thought the spirit would.

Lead Jesus to an easy place. But it gets worse.

Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. I have got all kinds of questions about that verse, and none of them are rhetorical.

I really need to know. Why would the spirit lead him into the wilderness.

And I thought about that over and over again, and I realized the more I read it that it was a repeat, because I remembered how Israel in the Old Testament went through the wilderness too, not for forty days and forty nights, but for forty years. And here's what the enemy did to them when they were coming out of Egypt. God was bringing them out of Egypt to the Promised Land.

And on their way out of Egypt into the.

Promised Land, the devil told them a lie that they could not.

Do what God had called them to do.

The devil has been telling you that same lie, has any that you are not enough, and that you are you are not enough, you are not loved. I said this last week. But victory is found in the repeat.

And when you.

Begin to understand that's all the devil ever says to you, You're not enough. It's not enough, they're not enough, You're not loved. It's not enough, you're not loved. Unless you do this, you can't be that. They won't love you if they only love you because you're not enough, You're not loved, You're not even enough for God to love you unless you act a certain way.

You're not enough for God to.

Hear you unless you reach a certain level of spirituality and scale yourself up to the highest heide of the best Christian. It's not enough. You tried, but it's not enough, and you're not loved. Now, those two lies play on the loop in our mind. But in the case of Israel going through the wilderness, I want to tell you something.

It was actually true. They were not enough for their enemies without.

God, but they were not without God. And that's what you forget. You forget that he's with you in the wilderness. He's with you in the wilderness. He's with you in your weakness. He's with you as you fight through this addiction. He's with you as you resist temptation. He's with you for that hard conversation you need to have. He's with you as you care for somebody who doesn't appreciate you.

Going to mention this so I can begin to deal with it? Because I'm tired of caring.

He is with you in the dry place where you haven't felt him for a really long time, and you're starting to feel like, well, maybe something's wrong with me, Maybe God has left me. But the Bible says that Jesus was led into the wilderness by the spirit. It says that the spirit led him, but it doesn't say the spirit left him. The spirit led him to a hard place, but the spirit, it did not leave him

He's with you in this in between.

He didn't drop you off in the middle of your adversity. He didn't leave you to figure this out by yourself. He did not abandon you when you got attacked.

He's not waiting for you to get it together, to come down and rescue you. He picks up.

The phone, and if you call him, he'll come.

If you call him, he'll come. If you say.

Jesus, he'll say, yes, I've done.

It a thousand times. I didn't feel like.

Calling on him, but I lifted my hands by faith, not sight, bye, faith not feeling, and I called on the Lord, and I stuck the Lord and he wards and he answered. So I want to give you three truths today to remember for new loops in your life.

And the first one is this.

I want you to shout it out everybody, say he's here.

Say that again. He's here.

Now in the verse I read you. He's not the only one here. It's the devil talking. I'm not even gonna write out his whole name.

I'm gonna just put that D right there and you'll know who I'm talking about. And then there's Jesus.

Hold up, I'm gonna do that in all caps. I can't draw, but I can do that. Now, listen to me, and listen to me. Close about this. It's a conversation going back and forth in the wilderness. And the spirit is with Jesus to defeat the enemy. The spirit is with you to defeat the enemy.

Yeah, Yeah, I love how we make it seem like Jesus as our perfect risen savior, and he is never experienced difficulty, or at least you know, we may not say that about Jesus because we know we went to the cross.

Sometimes we act like that was the only time that Jesus's life was hard. Jesus's life was hard the whole time it was hard. This is the brink of his ministry. He's thirty years old, and the spirit leads him in the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. That's his ministry apprenticeship. That's what the Lord gave him. That's what his father gave him to prepare him. And so I have recognized every time in my life that God was

At your destiny.

Everything I ever released for God faced tremendous resistance. I just say that in case it's been difficult for you now With that note made, then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil after fasting forty days and forty nights. This has to be the most obvious verse in the Bible.

He was hungry, and.

Yet it's not because Jesus is saying stuff that his disciples like, I have food to eat that you know not. But he still had a stomach and it was still empty. I fasted forty days one time when we started the church. Those were the hardest things I ever did. And people told me before I did it, don't worry about it. Once you get through the first three days, you don't even think about food anymore. And they said it's not

Spirit, talk about same lies, new loops. It was hard the whole time.

I started dreaming about foods I don't even eat in my normal life. I would be I would see brussels sprouts and salivate. Now I don't even need bacon in them. I just need the Brussels sprout. I'll eat it without oil, without salt. The whole forty days. It was hard the whole time. And you know, we think that the only time that it was hard for Jesus was when he went to the cross, because we read about him healing blind eyes the highlight reel, and people who couldn't speak

I don't know if you about to say that that's not true. No, it's true. It's true.

It's just that if the enemy can get you to go from a line to a loop, that instead of going through the hard thing, you get stuck in the hard thing. That instead of God delivering you through this season, you get in this season and you dig down deeper, and you actually define yourself by the difficulty of the season. Let me speak to that for a moment. Do not define yourself by the difficulty of the season. Define yourself

The Book of.

Hebrews, Chapter four, verse thirteen, about verse thirteen says something very interesting. He says that that's not the right verse. I don't know what the verse is there. It is verse fourteen that I gave you earlier. Since we have a great high priest. Everybody say, Jesus is high.

Who has ascended into heaven.

This is after his resurrection, Jesus the son of God. Let us hold firmly to the faith we profess, for we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses. But we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are.

Yet he did not sin. Here's your shouting verse.

Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence. Somebody shout, He's here, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of success, our time of blessing, our time of wholeness, our time of completeness.

All of that is true too.

But if you are in the hour of need right now, I know a name that is.

Greater than your need.

I don't care what need you name name cancer, named bankruptcy, name divorce, name hatred, name evil.

I know a name that is straight. And when on bush he answers.

High five at least five people say, he answered, I turned to the throne and he answered, he answered, He answered, God saw humanity striving in our sin, trying to keep the law and couldn't do it. Trying to be perfect and couldn't do it, trying to keep the commandments and couldn't do it. So he handled it himself. He's not only a high priest, he became a human. Why he came down to handle what you couldn't. Point number one says, he's here. Somebody's shout, he's here. Point number two says,

It's too hard for us. You know, sometimes we vent about our problems to people.

Be careful who you vent to, because sometimes when you start venting, start inventing. I studied, I study, I thought about what I wanted to say. I wanted to tell you how the Israelites looked at the land that God wanted to give them. And remember, they turned something that should have been as straight through into a forty year loop. And it all started because they were venting. Numbers Chapter

We can do this.

God is with uss. Somebody shout, he's here.

He's here.

Anything's possible if he's here. Did you see what he just did to the sea we came through. When the devil gets rhetorical, you get historical, start pointing to stuff that God already did and remind him how big your God, God is. I got a word for somebody. He already handled it. So it's hard, but but that's how you break that spiral. That's how you break out of that loop. That's how you break out of this stupid, crazy stuff that the devil's been feeding you, just like he tried

Where is y'all's mind? It's hard, but he's here.

I want everybody that puts that on a post it note somewhere around your.

House this week to tag me. But I don't have social media, so I won't see it. But somebody will print it. Out and give it to me.

And one of the reasons I don't have social media is because if I had social media on my phone right up now, I wouldn't be able to preach discermon to you. Because in this season of my life, I have got to be very, very careful about the voices.

That I allow to have weight in my life, because I refuse to let the voice of a human keep me from hearing from Heaven.

I must speak what God says is written.

But tag tag me anyway somebody will somebody will print it out for me.

Hashtag new loops, hashtag less news, new loops.

Hashtag more word less news. I am saying nothing, but what God says is more important than what do you think what any human opinion says. So be careful because if you keep venting, you might start inventing. You might make an enemy out of somebody who is actually your brother or sister in Christ. Okay, nw loops is hard, But he's here. He's right in the middle of all of it. His name is Jesus, and he's here, and also is handled Who told the sea? The sprint rhetorical question.

But he does.

To tell you that you don't have to respond to temporary pressure by making decisions that are going to set you back for your destiny.

The Lord wants you to know its handle.

And in verse thirty one, the people start responding. The men who have gone up said, we can't attack those people. They are stronger than we are. It's too hard. It's too hard. Verse thirty two, And they spread among the Israelites bad report about the land they explored. And they said, the land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. That's true,

But if you look like that in your eyes, you start inventing.

There have been times in my marriage where I started treating Holly like my enemy because of my own insecurity. I start pushing her away because of something in me that I don't want her to see. So now I'm treating the person that God gave me as my help, and I am treating them like they are.

The person that I'm assigned to fight.

Is your insecurity, leading you to believe your enemy, to create new enemies, to join with the words of the enemy.

Jesus would have none of it.

When the devil spoke to Jesus, Jesus talked back. Jesus talked back, and it was hard, and he was hungry, but he understood that the spirit led him to the wilderness. But the spirit did not leave him in the wilderness, and he understood that his father already had a plan. Now, the devil has a plan and God has a plan.

Which one are you going to go with?

One plan is to satisfy you temporarily in short term, and the other is for you to trust God with your tomorrow.

Because he's the one who's already there.

The tempter came to him. He was hungry because he was human. He's high and holy, but he was born as a human to pay the price for our sin. And the tempter came to him and said and said, if you are the son of God, tell these stones.

This is gonna be a stone.

If you are the son of God, tell the stone to become bred.

If you are the son of God, do something.

To take something that's not supposed to be something and make it something that it can't be. Now we already know that if Jesus tells the stone to be bread, it'll be pumpernickel in a minute. It'll be rye bread in a minute before he says the first syllable, it will be the softest, warmest loaf of bread. Jesus could not only speak to the stone and make it bread. He could speak to heaven and rain down butter on the bread.

He could speak to.

The sun and the sun would toast the slice of bread that wasn't there before that was a stone.

He could do that.

But watch what he said in verse four. I think this is powerful for our lives, Jesus answered. Jesus answered, he's fully human, and he's fully God.

That means he's able to be.

Tempted, but he's also able to overcome. So when the tempter spoke, watch this.

Answered.

It is written, man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God, the God who spoke to the sea, and it split, the God who spoke to the mountain, and it left the God who spoke you into existence.

That's what I live off of. That's what I go by. That's my new loop, what God spoke.

And any time that I get stuck, anytime that I'm going around and around this is.

So messy, I shall probably just start all over.

Anytime that I feel like what is against me is greater than what is for me.

Here we go, same lies loop. Watch the lie. It's not enough.

You've got to turn the stone into bread because God won't provide for you.

It's not enough.

But at the heart of this chunk something very interesting if you are the son of God, because not only it's not enough, but you're not loved, and that there's something that you have to do to get God to love you. But Jesus knew better. Jesus knew not only he's here not only it's handled, but Jesus knew.

I'm his.

Think about the absurdity of the devil's impision turn a stone into bread. Jesus already is both of those things.

Peter said it this way.

The stone that the builders rejecting has become the chief corner stone, the rock that Moses drank from in the wilderness, the one that God pulled into a pool. Jesus is what the devil is trying to tempt him to turn something into. And don't even get me started about bread, because Jesus is the vibe. Jesus is the bread. Jesus is the resurrection.

Jesus is the way, the truth, the Jesus is the good shepherd.

Jesus is the Gate, and Jesus is the bread. So devil, you can't get me what's already mine.

I belove to God.

I'm his and he's got me. I'm his, and he knows me. I'm his, and he chose me. I'm his, and no man can put me from his hand. I'm his, I'm called, I'm his, I'm.

Sustained, I'm his.

I'm got grace for.

This season because I am his.

And he's here, and it's handled because I'm his, because he's here, and it's handle because I'm his.

Till your neighbor be nice to me.

My father is a great God, tell him be good to me because my.

God is a great king, and he's here in this handle.

When I do this, receive the word of the Lord. My friend, receive the word of the Lord. My brother, receive the word of the Lord. Says, receive the word of the Lord. Man of God, receive the word of the Lord. You pastor receive the word of the Lord. Single mom receive the word of the Lord. High school student receive the word of the Lord. Recovery Program day thirty three.

Receive the word of the Lord.

The bread is already here. The song that the builders rechecked.

It shall become the sheep.

Warner stone sus you belong to God. Come on, let's sit in that for a moment. For every devil this's been lieing to you. The devil came at Jesus three different ways. He told him, if you're the son of God, what you mean if I'm the son of God. Y'all never read Matthew chapter three, verse sixteen when you're about to, because the Bible says that before Jesus was led into the wilderness, he went through the water, and as soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water.

With him, I am well pleased.

So when the devil Matthew four verse one, started tempting Jesus in the wilderness, and in verse two, the Bible says, after fasting forty days and forty nights, not forty years, because Jesus was doing for them what they could not do for themselves. Don't you get it? He was in the wilderness for you. He was handling it for you. He was achieving a righteousness that you and I could never achieve. He was paying the price for you. That's why the spirit led Jesus into the wilderness, so that

So I don't think so. I don't think so devil. I don't think so devil.

I don't think I'm just gonna be depressed Devil. I don't think I'm just gonna live the rest of my life reliving and rerunning this and repeating this and dredging this back up.

I don't think so devil.

I don't think I'm gonna let the world make me mad and angry and cynical devil.

I don't think so devil. I know I'm his.

I'm a royal people, I'm a chosen priesthood.

I'm a holy nation. I belong to God. And he came at him three ways I'm almost done.

I know y'all want me to preach for four more hours. Come on, four more hours, Come on, four more If Jesus could fast forty days, y'all can say five more minutes.

In this message, he's here say it.

It's hard, but.

He's how you get the point. And it's hard, but it's handled. Uhh D definitely comes before L in the word handle. I do know that, but I was confused when it said I'm his, because that's what the Lord gave me. That he said was more important than anything else, because if you don't believe that you're loved by him, you will be trying to turn everything else in your life into loaves.

And he is my favorite verse.

After the devil tempts Jesus three times because remember defeat in victory or in the repeat, so he's not just gonna do it once, not just twice, not just three times. But after he told him, hey, throw yourself off the building and the angels will catch you. Jesus like I know the angels on a first name basis, and I do not need to do.

Something to get the angels to come.

If I ask my father to send angels, they're already on the way.

Ooh, touch three.

People say they're already on the way. The help you need is already on the way. The support you need is already on the way. The book you need is already in your mailbox. Check your mailbox, the book you ordered last week. It's got the answer. It's already on the way. And after being tempted, ooh, I feel this

Oh, come on, get happy. I don't need no music. Just get happy. Come on, get happy. Then keep clapping so I can erase. Then, come on, come on.

You want the devil to get up out of your mind. You want the devil to get up out of your psychology. You want the devil to get out of your kids. You want the devil to get out of your feed. You want the devil to get out of your all right, get happy.

Then the devil left.

I'm gonna just start all over, And the Bible says verse eleven, isn't on the screen?

Is verse eleven on the screen? I saw a picture. Then the devil left, and.

Oh, thank you Jesus, that're supposed to be an angel.

The age Us came. They a'te us came. They ain't us came with to hell.

Just slam the asus.

Pay touch seven.

People say, wait for the angel, Wait for the angel. Wait for the angel. Wait for the angel. Don't be too anxious, it's already on the way. Don't talk yourself out of standing strong for Christ. Wait for the angels. The angels are on the way. The angels are in room. You don't have to throw yourself up a building.

The Ageus are coming, The angels are coming.

The angels are coming.

Somewhere in those forty days, I know Jesus prayed, because I don't believe that the devil was the only one Jesus was talking to in Matthew chapter four. I believe that Jesus, as human and as hungry as he was, prayed to his father and said, father, I need you. And when he called his father he answered and just because the answer.

Hasn't arrived yet does not mean God didn't send it.

But in this season, if you start trying to turn stones into bread and substitute other human relationships for your relationship with God, you will miss your angel because you ate something that was never meant to be eaten.

Stand on your feet. The angels are waiting.

I believe there's angels come into your house this way. I believe angels are coming to somebody's central nervous system right now to calm you down. Freaking out swinging at stuff that isn't even swinging at you. Stop it, wait for the angel. He's here, is handled, You're his. Speak those things quietly say, he's here, is handling. I'm his. Come here, Abbe, come here, I called, she answered, because she's mine.

Come on up my way up. We love you, Abby answer, I'm saying, I love you too. Person I don't know.

And before we came out, I was showing her my angel. I says, it look like an angel. I said, give me your hand, put it up. Can y'all get this on the screen. I drew those two loops on her hand. Now this is my daughter, so I'm saying to her and I know fourteen year old can't get a tattoo, but if she could, I would probably have her get something like this. But I have somebody draw more professionally, just to remind her that he's here, that his hand.

And I'm his, and I'm his.

Angels are on the way, Angels are on the way, angels are on the web.

He said, what do you mean by that? What do you mean by that, Pastor Stephen?

I mean that God is going to send you the help that you need as you call onto him.

And yesterday, why are we on our knees like this? I'll stand up. It's very uncomfortable.

She had a soccer game yesterday afternoon. Yesterday morning, ten am soccer. I want to say, for somebody who's about to preach in twenty four hours, I'm always stressed out trying to find the soccer field.

That's my hardest part. I have no sense of direction. Holly got there. She sent me a pen.

I left with plenty of time to part and I arrived exactly on time, five minutes to spare to an empty church parking lot with no soccer field. I mean, I'm just driving talking my friend on the phone talking about my sermon to me. I think I'm gon talk about the angels and the bread and the stones. This is make an offense. He's like, yeah, I'm sure it'll get there. But the angels are on the way. The

And there's no really bad part of this story because all I did.

I called Holly, I said, hey, this is weird. I went where you sent me to go before you left. But I need you to resend it to me now that you're there. Because the address that we had, I got to.

The destination that it was taking me to.

But the destination that was taking me to was not the destination.

Where you are?

I said, so what do I do? She said, I'm gonna drop you a new pin because she's here. Now, everybody say he's here.

Because she's here now.

I said, all right, and then I put it in and it was fifteen minutes away.

I fifteen minutes off and then I drove somewhere and then the GPS took me down this very strange dirt road. Yeah, it was the weirdest thing. The sign said keep out, and I went through anyway because the GPS told me to.

I'm just obeying the GPS, you know. And of course it's a dead end. It's some weird looking government building. I don't even know where I was or what was about to happen to me. I don't know what got in my GPS. So I called her again. I said, okay, let's try it different this time. You're already there. Tell me how to get there from where I am. And she said, okay, well you it's the road, and she's

In the wilderness.

And so.

Then she really really put the cherry on top.

She said, I'm wearing my bright yellow hat, and you can see me, and I'll wave you in, and i will block this pickup truck that's.

Trying to take this parking space until you get here.

And I saw that yellow hat, and I saw my woman standing there waiting for me, and I realized what was wrong.

In that moment. I didn't need a pen. I needed a person. I needed somebody who was already there to guide me in.

Now, you keep trying to fight temptation in your own strength, you're gonna stay lost. You're gonna think you're taking the right turns, you're gonna think.

You're doing the right things.

But Jesus said, hey, I'll be standing in your next five minutes.

I'll be standing in your Tuesday. I will be waving you in. You look for me, you stay with me, and I'll answer. He answered.

He answered, Jesus, answered the devil, because the Father already answered him.

And the angels are.

On the way.

I call God on the mountain. I call God in the valley.

I call God on the good days, and I call God.

In he surrounds me. Call God just to tell him, just to say.

Call.

God's saying. So one thing you could do.

You could just lift your hands to your father right now.

I call God on the mountain.

I call God, he answered, Oh God, he answered Jesus, he'll answer you. And the Lord is in this place with your God. Angels in your wilderness man.

Angels in your try place. He turned stones into pools of waters. I call God. I call God. I call God. Let's have a little grace party of God. Let's get it warmed up. Baby. I call God where you ask you SECTION call God.

Just a thank you, Susan said, See my new friend God, my new briend.

I sold the honey I think I had man. I called God.

He's a healer.

I call God, new bread.

I call God bread.

I call God. It's just all aroun me. I call God andie I call God. He say again, I call God. As I sold that heady as he.

I call God, he.

I call God, heisp oh God.

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