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Hindsight 2020 (Pastors Steven & Holly Furtick)

Jan 04, 202145 min
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Before moving forward, it’s important to look back. Join Holly Furtick of Elevation Church as she revisits some of Pastor Steven’s most powerful messages of 2020.

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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 has moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Happy New Year. It's amazing because many of us never thought that we would finally see this day. It is twenty twenty one, and twenty twenty is officially and finally

behind us. The past twelve months have brought a lot of challenges along with them, and I know most of us have probably wished we could just erase this year from our memory at some point or another. But do you really want that. I mean, I've always heard be careful what you wish for, and I believe that it's important to look back before we move into what this new year holds. Every January, I like to take time

to journal and reflect on the previous year. You know, a lot of people like to make goals and think about what's coming, but it's really important to reflect on the highs and the lows that you experienced in the year before, and to think about all the ways that

I've grown. We need to pause and reflect on the words that God has spoken to us as we walked through the fear and the frustration and the fighting that twenty twenty brought, And we need to recognize, as our pastor has continually pointed out to us, that this twenty twenty was actually the year of the Lord's favor. When we look back, it's so evident that His presence has been with us every single step of the way. I can't get that song the Blessing out of my head.

You know, that little song that our church also released into the world this year that literally went around the world. I keep thinking about the part where it says, may His presence go before you and behind you, and besides you, all around you and within you. He is with you,

and He is for you. So looking back on twenty twenty, we can see that not only was God with us, but He was doing a work within us, within you and within me, a work that wasn't derailed by your situation or your disappointment, or your fear or your frustration, but one that actually served to accelerate your growth because what God wanted most from us was transformation on the inside. In our mindsets, in our hearts, in our faith, and

in our families. Today I'm standing in our Valentine auditorium and almost the exact spot that I have been for every sermon that my husband has preached this year, and I felt that there was no better place to revisit and reflect on some of the most timely sermons of the year for our church. Today, I have with me my journals that highlight the work that God was doing

in our church and in our families and in our hearts. Now, first of all, can we just all get on the same page and agree that Pastor stephen sermons from twenty twenty were on a whole another level. And that is saying a lot, because this man brings us a sermon week after week that is a word from God, and

he's been doing it for years. But I feel like every week in twenty twenty, our pastor prophetically brought the exact word that I needed to hear, even when I didn't know that that was what I needed to hear. Do you agree with that? When we talk about looking for God's favor on our lives, I gotta say I can't believe that I got a front row seat to see each of these sermons being preached and going out into the world, even if most of the time it

was just to me and practically an empty room. Each week, I got to sit in this seat and watch Pastor Stephen deliver not only the words that we needed to hear to get us through the week, but the promises of God that reminded us of who we are despite the challenges and the disappointments that we face this year. And I believe that these short excerpts from four of his sermons will serve to remind you of some of what God spoke to you and what God did in

your life. So can we go into twenty twenty one with a little dose of hindsight. That's what we're called this message today, Hindsight twenty twenty. Go ahead and put that in the chat wherever you're worshiping with us from We are going to look back and see the favor of God was there all along. God's presence goes before us. He goes before us to prepare the way when we go through trials, and you can see the hand of

God doing just that. When we look back at the sermon my husband preached called make Room for the new on March eighth. Now talk about being prophetic. We had no idea that that would be the last weekend that we would all be gathered together in church, and just a week later, a state of emergency would shut down

most of the country. It's pretty remarkable, first of all, to just remember what it was like when this room was packed full of people, but also to think about how none of us knew how much we would actually need this message, not only then, but even more so when everything in our world seemed to change overnight. In my notes, I wrote down time under tension is the formula for growth, and I had no idea how much tension would arise in the coming months, and this message

was preparing us for what was to come. See, we talked about making room for the new. You want to go have a yard sale or something like that, or put everything on It's not about closet space. It's not about it's not about clearing out your closet. It's about the transformation of your mind. Do you have room for the new in your mind? Because they didn't. Peter didn't.

When God showed Peter what he was about to do, like this is the way it always is when God shows us something, we compare it to our previous point of reference, and then we start consulting our resources. And God wants to bring us new relationships. But watch this, if you're not ready for new people in your life, you will bring the same patterns to the new relationships

that you brought to the old relationships. And we literally keep people out of our lives that God wants to send because we are holding on to the hurts from the one who have already left. I feel the spirit of God breaking barriers as I preach right now, because you're like, what is this message you have to do to me? I'm not getting on an airplane and going to preach to somebody in Cessareea like Peter did. You

don't have to. All you have to do is dare to believe that God is making room for the new in your life right now. And even sometimes when it was painful for me and I thought I was losing things in my life, I wasn't losing it. God was moving it. Who is this for? I just need to know, probably about twenty people, you didn't lose it. God moved it. He said, you will still be eating last year's harvest. When you have to move it out. Somebody shall move

it out. God, anything that is in the way of me being who I need to be in this season, get it out of my heart, get it out of my mind, get it out of my habits. You can have it. God, I don't want it. I want what you've got. So you can't receive new miracles with old mindsets. Make room for the new. It looks like this, emptying yourself, humbling yourself and asking God, what do you want to

do in my job? Or you can run from it and resist it, and you can keep remembering when the kids were so cute they are forty three now they stop being cute. Quite a while ago and the church was trying to figure out how do we protect what we loved while we embrace what is new? And I don't know. I think there are at least three lessons in this text. Y'all got a minute, make room for the new. Number one, God says this, don't limit yourself

by labels. The first thing God told Peter, he said, you've got your nice little, neat categories, because when the sheet came down, Peter saw all kinds of animals. And y'all need to know in this culture they respected visions. This was not like Peter's hallucination or you know how some people now are so weird and they're like, well, the Lord showed me a vision of us walking on the beach. It's like, bro, you need to ask her out and stop trying to embed it in this weird spirituality.

So so Peter actually saw something. But remember there's sometimes a tension between what you thought God showed you. It's at tension, and that tension is a real gift because that's where growth happens. Where it's like God, I thought, I thought I was going to be married to her the rest of my life, but I'm not. I'm not married now, and that's painful. But what you do with it becomes your jappa, which determines do you run from God's purpose for your future or do you run toward it.

That's joppa. And the word God gave me was don't limit it with a label, because the first thing he told Peter, he said Peter said, in verse six, acts eleven, I looked into it and saw four footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds. And then after he saw the pigs in a blanket. He said, I try to keep y'all awake. Then I heard a voice telling me get up, Peter, kill and eat. Now, when I read that, I said, God was trying to get Peter to go hunting. No, it wasn't about the animals.

He was about to sin Cornelius, whom Peter saw as an unclean gentile, so he was using this. It wasn't about bacon. It was about barriers, mental barriers. So when he said get up, Peter, kill and eat, it wasn't that God wanted Peter to kill a pig. It was that he was trying to kill Peter's categories. In this season of your life, God is trying to kill your categories. He's going to use people you did not even like

to grow you up and mature you. There was one person the other day that shared a Bible verse with one of my kids, and they left our church years ago. They didn't even like me when they left, But when they gave a Bible verse to my kids, I said, God, I don't care who hands them the scriptures. I'll take a cold cup of water in the pit of hell from anybody. I don't care who hands it to them. Use who you want to use God, do what you

want to do, kill my categories. As a matter of fact, when we say all things work together for the good, what we mean when we quote Romans eight twenty eight out of context because Romans eight twenty eight is connected and conjoined incidentally to Romans eight twenty nine, which says, according to his purpose. So what it means by good is this going to fulfill his purpose? Not my preference. Y'all can shout right now. What it means is I can't categorize. That's God's job. It is God's job to

know what's best for me. It is God's job to know what needs to happen. It is God's job to know what experiences I need to get. So God says, stop limiting it by labels. Labels labels can apply to a group of people. He said, look what the Lord said when he said, arise Peter killing e. Peter says, surely not, Lord, nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth. Now watch what God said in verse nine.

Those are your categories, not mine. The voice spoke from heaven a second time, saying, do not call anything impure that God has made clean. Stop limiting God with your labels prophetic, right, I mean, who knew that we needed to hear make room for the new? And making room for the new sounds exciting until it actually comes time to let go and make space. And many of us didn't get to choose what we were going to let

go of. This year took so much from us. And what I think everyone under the sound of my voice today can understand is how tiring that process is and was when we didn't know how long we would be stuck in our homes, or stuck without a job, or stuck trying to work at home and teach our children.

And just as we were starting to feel exhausted with our situation, Pastor Stephen came in and preached a message that resonated so powerfully with what everyone was feeling, but also a message that brought so much hope, reminding us that the Savior we worship has been in that same spot. He told us that trials may make you weary, but that doesn't mean that God's not in it or that you are weak. How do we know, because Jesus got

tired too. I wrote this in my notes. We serve a God who is powerful enough to give us strength, but was also human enough to feel tired. I think you're going to be really encouraged as we revisit this portion of tired on the inside. What do I tell the person who is too tired to go on? What do I tell the one who says I'm too tired? God said, tell him I got tired too. Jesus sat down in Samaria. That's where to talk to a woman. That's who ask him for water? That's what. But why

because you was tired? Because he was fully god fully many. As much as we love to shout about his divinity, you know how we were a minute ago when I was setting you up about the great I am, just to bring you back down so you could know that the same God who created you, who was strong enough, who was powerful enough. Everybody thinks Jesus was weak. Raise your hand. Maybe maybe being weary doesn't mean you're weak. Jesus tire? Why was he tired? I didn't say who

was he tired of? We already know it was Peter. Come on, Peter, Peter's fighting you at every turn, cussing and stuff in front of the press, having to bleep Peter out. You know, I know he was tired of the Pharisees. He couldn't wash his hands, or not wash his hands. They followed him to every bathroom, every dinner. I know he was tired of them, but it says he was tired from the journey. Thinking about Jesus journey. You know, they walked everywhere, no uber, no uber, Jesus,

uber Christ, Uber Savior. Three day walk from where they were baptizing through some area. Straight through was the short cut. By the way, the direct route is sometimes the divine route. Instead of hiding the fact that you're tired, you just say, God, I'm tired. Somebody was yawning during my sermon one time, and I just got mad about it. I said, how are you tired? You're not doing anything, you know. But I found out later they worked the night shift and

came straight to church. It's kind of hard to understand someone if you only see them at one part of their journey. And some people that we think are weak maybe are weary. Have you thought about that that just because you're weary, it doesn't make you weak. How do you know that Jesus, I am the light of the world, I am the bread of life, I am the Resurrection, I am the door, I am the shepherd, I am

the true vine, I am the Way. At some point, six hours after they left that morning, at noon, he said something we wouldn't expect to hear the saviors say, I am tired. This is the incarnation I worship of God, who is powerful enough to give me strength and who is human enough to get tired. And for some reason this week I felt that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus. I thought maybe you could relate to him, because his journey didn't really start with just leaving that morning.

I mean, that's enough six hours that day. Six hours in one day. I mean I got a six hour drive coming up with my kids, and I'm downloading every episode of the off on all of their phones, just hoping we can make it six hours, still be saved, still be married, still be healed, delivered, blessed in one bappy family. And that's a drive six hours because you leave at six is noon is hot as the heat

of the day. Of course, he's tired, And yet I wondered, was it only physical or did he go through Samaria because he was tired of the way they were treating each other. Why was he tired. Why did he come to abolish the barriers full of grace and truth? And we beheld his glory. His journey didn't start in Bethlehem. And the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh. That's a long trip from the sapphire seal

of heaven to the dusty streets of Samaria. Of course he was tired. Even youth will grow weary and stumble. But those who wait on the Lord. I'm waiting on God right now, I'm waiting. Somebody say I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting, and I'm weary, and I'm not going to lie to you. I'm weary. I mean, this is getting old. And some of y'all want to cuss right now, don't do it in the chat, they'll block you. But even in your mind, you're like, I'm sick of this. I

am sick of this. I mean, that's that's not an I am statement we read in the Bible. But that's what you're saying right now in your heart. I am, but I am sick of this. I am I am sick and tired. I am tired of fighting battles. The thing about me, some people say when they get tired, they start laughing. Not me. When I get tired, I get mean, how many of you when you get tired? That's that's why when you had to pull me out of the elevator in Australia, I was about to fight

that guy after I preached. I mean, I had just finished given the invitation too. If you're here today, the Lord says, come and that dude said something sideways to me, and my uncle taught me to hit him with your elbow if you can get close enough. And I was talking the elbow and Chunks pulled me back. He said, you've been I was jet lagged. I had preached twenty three times in four days. They were preaching me to

death at Hillsung Church. I'm preaching. I'm preaching, preaching, preaching tired, And Chunks told me, I said, come on, you're too tired now, because when you get too tired, you start fighting battles that don't matter to distract you from the ones that do. That's just me. I start fighting everybody. I start fighting people that are trying to help me when I'm tired. So Jesus said y'all go get lunch.

I'm sitting here for a minute because the ones y'all have been fighting against are the ones I came to say. He had to go through some mary, He had to sit down. There was a woman coming who needed him. She didn't even know it, she had no idea who he was. He sat down because he was tired. I mean, you don't have to do anything right now. Just sit down and receive this word that the Son of God got tired. The Son of God got tired. I know you're superman and you're mad at yourself because you can't

always get it perfect perfection got tired. Faith doesn't prevent fatigue. It just gives me a place to sit. One of the things that I've realized when I'm tired and my emotions are just getting the best of me, is that I'll tend to start thinking that I am stuck and things are always going to be this way. That everything that I had planned, or the schedule that I had for my life, well now everything is just permanently derailed.

And while everyone's schedule did get thrown out the window in twenty twenty, that doesn't mean that God ever got off of his schedule in this next message that I want to share with you unschedulable blessings. My husband reminded us that you can't schedule the presence of God. If God wants to reset your schedule, will you let him? If God wants to move, He's like, Hey, I know all your other friends are over here doing this, that, and the other. But I got something different for you.

God said, can we reschedule? I know you had all this stuff that you were going to do this year. Can we reschedule? I almost hear the Lord saying, let me make it up to you. I almost hear the Lord saying, I'm gonna do exceeding abundantly above what you had on your schedule. I almost hear the Lord saying,

let me get you ready for what I have scheduled. See, to really trust God, we can sing about that and quote about that, but to trust in the Lord with all your heart means that you have to move with him. You have to move with him. And life has come along this year and interrupted your rhythm. I know it sucks. I'm not saying you have to like it, but what are you gonna do with it? He didn't promise you a schedule. He promised you his spirit. See that's better.

That's better. That's better because his spirit will give me the ability to step out if I need to step out, or to stay put if I need to stay put. So this is for you. If you feel behind schedule, have more money in the bank by now. I should know more of the Bible by now. It does not matter what your schedule was. It matters what God spoke about you before you were born. Do you get it now? You can be seventy five and eleven years into waiting. Abraham tried to have a baby with Hagar because he

got tired of waiting for the schedule. I'm glad that the disciples waited for the spirit and whatever you're waiting for today. I just needed to make it clear as clear as I can. I can't make it as clear as I saw it. I'll never be able to do that. But I just saw God saying, stop trying to schedule me. Like, build your schedule, but realize that some of the best things that I'm going to do in your life are

not going to be on your schedule. Anybody testify that one of the greatest blessings God gave you the greatest blessings are unschedulable. And if you are so stuck on what you thought this stage of life or what you thought this day would be like, I'm telling you you are gonna miss the gift. Wait for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift. If that's your word, you can put it in the chat, or you can just put

it on a post. I'm waiting for the gift. I'm waiting for the gift, and I'm looking for the gift, and I'm looking for the cause. And I can't schedule God's presence. I can't schedule God's presence and say you should have done this then, and you should have done that there, and you need to give me details, then I'm sorry. You're not gonna get all the details. God will tell you what to build, but he will not tell you when to move it. He wants you to

depend on him. This is the most anointed word I've preached all year, because God is resetting our schedules, and what we are calling interruptions are really invitations. Praise Him for him, Praise him for him. Jesus said to Jyrus, don't be afraid, just believe. When he got to the house. The little girl was dead. To the other people, she was sleeping to Jesus because he has his own schedule. Heaven has a schedule, Heaven has a purpose, Heaven has

a blueprint, Heaven has a process. Have you submitted your schedule to the Lord? Just to say, Lord, I'm I want to reschedule. I thought you were going to do this, but let's reschedule. Lord. I thought you were gonna heal Lazarus. But hey, if you want to raise him from the dead, let's go to the tomb. Let's reschedule. I'll roll the stone. Yeah. I've been disappointed. I've been depressed, I've been stressed out,

but let's reschedule. I've been confused, but I've been trying to control the timing, and you've been calling me to trust you. So I received power. Lift your hands. I received power. I received power. I received power when the Holy Spirit comes on me and I'm gonna be a witness wherever I go. Father, I thank you in this moment for the unschedulable. Unschedulable God, help me say it. That's what happens when you make up a word, you

mess up your prayer. The unschedulable blessings that are coming to your people all over the world, The unschedulable blessings, the testimonies that are coming. Because you are an unschedulable God. You give a hundred year old man a baby. You can bless us behind schedule at the same time you can be interrupted by a woman with the issue of blood. You can bless us ahead of schedule. That you can do anything because you're God. You can prepare a table

in the presence of our enemies. You don't even have to get rid of the problem to bless us. You're unschedulable. It's not for us to know the time. We can't control anything. We can't even control our kids little league schedule. We certainly can't control how things unfold in our life. So we just gonna We're just gonna wait, not because we're lazy, just because we know you love us. Some of the best stuff that God will do in your life will not be on your schedule. I wrote that

exact line down. Some of the best things God will do in your life will not be on your schedule. You cannot schedule God's presence. It's so comforting when we re lives that God is committed to bringing about his purpose in our lives on his schedule. When we think we're falling behind, God is often ready to do his

greatest work. I so needed to be reminded of this, because not only does he not move according to our timetable, but ultimately I think the main lesson that we have learned is in order to make room for the new in our lives, we have to expect that God is going to actually do something new in your life, and when he does, we have to remember that that doesn't

always look the way it's always looked. It never looks the way that you expected or comes when you thought it would come, but it might need that there is a deposit or a gift in you that you never knew you had. Pastor Stephens a lot of time in the Fall exploring the theme of asking better questions and how this year hopefully finally got us to the place of no longer telling God our plans, but perhaps asking him what his purposes are for us, and what did he put inside of us to do? What deposit has

he made in us to use for his kingdom? And it's my prayer that this kind of faith will be how we start this year twenty twenty one, asking the right questions based on faith, not fear, based on who lives inside of us, not what we think we have or don't have. Here's something that I wrote down from the sermon. Did I ask keep coming back? When they came to him? They received? When you ask you activate? How does Pastor Stephen manage to encourage me and chastise

me in the same sermon. I love this clip and it also happens to feature another one of my favorite people making a special appearance to check this out. If you knew what was in you, you wouldn't kill yourself. If you knew what was in you, you wouldn't let pornography strangle the creative life out of you. If you knew what was in you, you wouldn't hide yourself behind false personas. If you knew I was in you. Everywhere the enemy has planted condemnation in your life. I want

you to replace it with a question. That's the devil's language. Condemnation that's the devil. That's not how God talks. God asks questions. The wisdom that comes from above whispers within, Like you said to Elijah in the cave. What are you doing here? God ask questions up close. He knows you like that. If you knew, you would ask Wait a minute, I thought. If you don't know, you asked no. No. If you knew who was in you, you stop listening

to everything around you so much. If you know who told you that you were naked, who told you that you were nothing, who told you it wasn't enough. If you knew who you were talking to when you talk to yourself, if you knew, Thank you, Lord, thank you, Thank you for the ministry of the Holy Spirit. I don't think I've ever felt you more than I feel you right now. And I thank you because I need you. I need you, We need you, somebody needs you. On the other and through their tears, they see now that

the answer is not standing outside of them. The living water is within and the bread is right here. So Jesus is in Moses. Okay, Jesus and Moses. God's not going to do it like he used to do it, but if you ask, he'll show you what he's doing right now in this moment. Speaking of Moses, remember when God came to him and said, I want to use you. He had to set a whole nation for you. We don't have that responsibility. But God's speaking to us too, He's calling us to. Moses asked a question, who shall

I say sent me? God said, I am, you are what that's the question? How you get to spend the rest of your life finding out the answer? Thank you, Lord, I am. You're going to find out all that he is through the things you go through. But Moses, Moses said something to the Lord in Exodus fourteen, and I'll show you this before I close, because the Lord gave it to me like an image, like an image, Like an image. He said, if you knew what was in you, if you knew what was in you, you would ask

for strength. You would ask, I'm in you. So you can ask I'm in you. You got to get it in you. You got to get it in you, Moses said, after a whole series of excuses, you know, God asked him a question. He said, what's that in your hand? Said? In your hand? Moses simply had a staff, But that wasn't all it was. It was an instrument to part waters, to turn rivers to blood. It was an instrument. It was an instrument. What's in your hand? It's coming from

the five. It's coming from the five. It's coming from the five. What's in your hand? Did you ask? Did you ask? Or do you just assume it's not enough? Did you ask? We get in trouble when we answer, when we answer instead of asking. So God said, I chose you, Moses in an Exodus four ten, this is the picture the Lord gave me. And the Lord must really want somebody to get this message, because it's so

heavy on me. I can barely move. But Moses said, pardon your servant, Lord, I have never been eloquent, not enough, neither in the past nor since you've spoken to your servant. I'm slow speech and tongue. Now everybody has something like that. They could say why you can't make it, and why there's not enough, and why eight months wages wouldn't be enough. Everybody has an inner Philip, and the inner Philip will jump to conclusions based on the evidence that you can

see with your eyes. But watch what the Lord said in verse eleven. The Lord said, did I ask who gave human beings their mouth? Did I ask who makes them deaf? From you? Did I ask you keep telling me what you're not? But I didn't ask you that you keep telling me what you can't. But I didn't ask you that. So don't say I'm just single, don't say I'm just young, don't say I'm too old. Did I ask high Lord? I am enough? Is it not?

I come here, boy, Come here, Come in come in cocon come in come, in come, in come, in come, in come, in come, in come, in come, in come, in come here, come in come in I need to hunder sixty dollars. I need to under sixty dollars. I need to under sixty dollars. I need to under sixty dollars. Ah, you didn't think you had it. But right up before I came to preach, I handed him my wallet and I didn't tell him why. I said, just hold this

for me until I'm done. And I'm about to be done, because when I get to the end of my message, I'm gonna put something in my boy, and when I ask you for it, the fact that I ask is the proof that you have him. If I ask, you have it, if I ask, I gave it, it's in you. It's more than alone. Count that money that what's in that wallet? What's in that wallet? I need tell sixty But I will never ask you for what I didn't get you to forget with. And if you run out

of that, I got credit too. Now upset my credit score. I'm putting in a boy, I'm putting in your duggers. I'm putting in your spirit. I'll put it in a basket. I'll put it in a bag. I'll put it in a weakness. I'll put it in a poet. I yeah, follow, I had follow. Wow you're not, but I am had this. Boats live again, they care, they will. It's so good to look back and to remember the messages that God

has spoken over us this year. I actually remember being on the front row and seeing my husband give Elijah his wallet and wondering why is he giving Elijah his wallet? And then I totally forgot about it, and I was just as surprised as you were at the end. I just I love moments like that. And as I close, I just want to remind you that everything you need to accomplish what God is calling you to do in

twenty twenty one, it's already inside of you. Everything you need for everything you're called to do, and nothing more. The fact that he asks is the proof that you have it. What a beautiful reminder. I want to encourage you to spend a few moments reflecting on the presence of God in your life over the past year. I find that when I take the time to look back, I can see the hand of God in every triumph and every disappointment, in every setback, and in every unexpected blessing.

When I take the time to see, I can trace the favor of God on my life every step of the way. And I know you would agree with that. In the morning, in the evening, in your coming, in your going, He is with you, before you, behind you, besides you, all around you. He was with you in twenty twenty and he goes before you in twenty twenty one. Thank you everyone for joining me as we took a look back at the amazing messages that God has spoken

to our hungry souls. Remember, all of these messages and more are available in their full format on the Elevation Church YouTube and the Elevation Church Podcast for you to listen to over and over again and for you to share with a friend that you think might need to hear these messages too. And so I just want to close in prayer, thank you for joining us today and God, we thank you that your presence has been with us

all along. We thank you for giving our pastor the exact words that we needed to hear each week in twenty twenty. They were truly bred for our souls. And Lord, we look forward to twenty twenty one, not because it will be perfect or free from pain or disappointment, but because a new year means new opportunities for growth. And God, we want to grow in our knowledge of You and in our relationship with You, and we want to know

you more each day. Thank you God that you are with us each and every step of the way, that we don't have to be afraid because You are with us and we are never ever alone. God, we thank you for the ministry of Elevation Church and what it means to each and every one of us. We love you, Lord, It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen, thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this

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