One Life (Jabin Chavez)

he's a God of seasons. Places are important. Your place is important. And I can honestly say, of Elevation Church, this is my place. It's the place that God has provided over and over and over again for me. Can I get a witness from anybody in the house that would say, this is my Jehovah jirah place. This is the place that God has spoken to me, met with me, provided for me, led me, guided me. And I'm so grateful for our pastors today. I'm so grateful for Pastor

Stephen and Pastor Holly Ferdick. I'm grateful for their yes, I'm grateful for their love for God. I'm grateful for their love for each other. I so appreciate them. I appreciate what they've what they've said yes to so that we could all enter into and they're worthy of honor. And I just felt led today to pray for them before we get into our word. As they're taking a few days to rest and recharge for the rest of the year, I think it is right to pray for

our pastors. Can I get an amen? Everybody? So, at every location Epham around the world, right here in Valentine, why don't we lift our hands together. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for our pastors. We thank you for our covering. We thank you for this amazing man and woman of God that you have raised up for such a time as this. We thank you

for Pastors Stephen and Hawley. We pray that even now you would meet with them, that even now you would refresh them, that even now, Lord, you would begin to speak to them about the future. I thank you that the greatest songs they've ever written, the greatest books they've ever written, the greatest sermons they've ever preached, are still

in front of them. I thank you that their future is brighter than even their past, at all you've done in their life and through their life and for their life, Lord, over these last years, Lord, I thank you that the best is still yet to come. I thank you Lord for vision. I thank you for divine protection. I thank you that even now you begin to bless Elijah and Graham and Abby, that you begin to speak to them in their youth and lead and guide them in their

youth and into their future. We pray Lord, that you would bless them, and as you bless them, that the oil would start at the top and it would flow all the way down to us. Lord, we thank you for the peace of God that's ruling and reigning right now, the provision of God, the favor of God, the hand of God that is upon them for the seasons ahead. We thank you for all they've done for us. And Lord, you said if we would refresh others, we would be refreshed.

We pray for all the refreshing they've done for us. Now, Lord, would you refresh them, Lord, would you pour back into them good measure, press down, shaken together and running over. We thank you for it in the mighty name of the Lord's Jesus Christ. And if you agree with that prayer, could we give God the best praise we've given him all day, every location. Oh, come, I clap your hands, all ye people, and sound under God with a voice of triumph. Amen. Amen, High five your neighbor. While you're

being seated. Tell him you look good, you sound good. I'm glad I'm sitting next to you. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. Hey, as Pastor Larry said, I am from Vegas, and so who's ever been in Vegas? Can I see your hand? Okay? Oh, okay, okay. I don't know if I was ready for that many hands to go up. But if if you're ever in Vegas witnessing Street evangelism, I don't know. I don't know why you go to Vegas, but if you're ever there, come say

hi to us over at Citylight Church. Our commitment to you is, if you had a rough weekend, We're not going to judge you. You just get to the House of God. We will lay hands on you, we will cast the devil out of you, We'll anoint your head with oil. We'll send you home like nothing happened, Just like, man, it was great. But if you had a good weekend in Vegas, remember your boy and bring an offering amen to the House of God. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord,

Praise the Lord. But we are a four year old church. We're just a little toddler church, just a baby church that has been so impacted by this ministry and so blessed by this ministry, both with prayers, advice, wisdom. So many phone calls with chunks. I pray for chunks, the amount of times that I've had to call that man and ask for help and wisdom and also financial support of you as you have sown into our city and know what God is doing here in Vegas. So thank you,

thank you. Genesis chapter twelve, I'm gonna read just three verses to you, and I'm going to share a few thoughts. Genesis chapter twelve. We're going to start in verse one. The Bible said that the Lord said to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you, I will make you famous, and you will be a

blessing to others. I will bless those that bless you, and I will curse those that treat you with contempt. All of the families of the earth will be blessed through you. Everybody say through you, because that's the point of the blessing of God, that it wouldn't just stop with us. Does want to do something for you, He wants to do something in you, but then it must

go through you into the world. And believe God has a plan for you to be a blessing to the world and to your world, and to your family and to those all around you. So with that in mind, I want to talk from this subject one life, one life? What could God do with one life completely surrender to him? What could he do with one life? A faith? Let's believe that God's going to speak to us now. Father, I thank you for your word. I thank you for

the moments we share. I pray for a tailor made word for your people, for every person in the room, every person in every auditorium, every person online. I pray that you would go beyond me, preach past me, and give people what they need. Today. Our hearts are open, we're listening, we're leaning in. We believe You're going to speak to us now. In the mighty name of Jesus. Everybody said Amen, Amen and Amen, thank you guys. Can we appreciate the worship team one more time? Clap your

hands for them. This just past June tenth, I celebrated my twenty fourth year of being a Christian. Jesus saved my life June tenth, nineteen ninety eight. And this September I'll celebrate twenty years of full time ministry. And here's what I want to tell you. After twenty four years of walking with the Lord, twenty years of ministry to the body of Christ, I love Jesus. Anybody else? Am I in the right room? Okay? I love the Lord, I really do. I love Church. I love Church. I

love coming in here. I mean I just cried through worship, just cry just watching Tiffany sing and John Sing and the team say. I just love I love Church. I love God, I love the Kingdom. I love what God is doing in the earth, and I love the Lord. I love the Lord for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons that I love God so much is that he uses us. That's amazing to me that he doesn't just save us, but the Bible said that he saves us and he calls us with a holy calling.

It is so unfair to be a Christian because we not only receive Christ, not only receive forgiveness, not only receive new life, but we receive purpose. That God does something with our life. That God makes something of our life. That God brings honor and dignity to our name and to our family tree, and to our future. He even redeems all that we've gone through and makes something beautiful

of it. This is the God that we serve, that in our immaturity and in our imperfections, and in our shoes, in our sometimes bad attitudes, he calls us and he anoints us, and he uses us for his glory. This is amazing to me that we don't just watch God move, but we get to be a part of his move. The Bible said in First Crinthian Chapter one, Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in

the world's eyes, or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose those things we are, those things the world considers foolish in order to shame those that think they are wise, And He chose things that are powerless to shame those that are powerful. This is our story that God can take just one person. That God can use one life for his glory and literally change nations, change communities,

change the last name of your family. That God can do something that what God did with Abraham, Abraham is the father of our faith, that he is the model of our faith. That the same way that God used Abraham, God can use us the same way that God changed Abraham's family. He can change us the same way that He brought a great, beautiful plan and purpose to his life. He can do the same thing with us. This is

who God is. And you're sitting there going but I'm not good enough, and I don't think I pray enough, and I definitely don't feel like I know enough. I just want you to know you're exactly who God wants to use. God doesn't use perfect people because they don't exist. We still think they do, but they don't. We're still convinced that we're messed up, but they're not. But that's just not the truth. Some people are just better at covering up their issues than other people. So it's not

perfect people that God uses because God doesn't happen. He so he uses me, and he uses you, and he uses us to do something amazing in the earth. God let us not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And if God has called you, no one can cancel you. Ah, yes, yes, And if God has called you, don't wait another moment to step into that call. All God needs is a yes, use what you got and let God use you. And you're going yeah, but I but I can't. But I

can't preach like pastor Steven join the club. None of us can. I ain't even trying. I gave up on that. But but I can't sing like then, none of us can. That's okay, But if we all just do what God's called us to do. See, this becomes powerful when we're in partnership, when we all do what God's called us to do. This is what happened to Moses right in Exodus chapter four. God says Moses, I'm going to use your life, and Moses says he can't use my life.

I can't talk, and God says, I don't need your mouth. He said, what's in your hand, because I'll take I'll take whatever your gift is, I'll take whatever your talent is, I'll take whatever your ability is, I'll take I'll take whoever you are, and I'll use it for my glory. I'll take something natural and I'll put my spirit on it and I'll make it supernatural. And your gift can only take you so far. But if you would ever let God use your life. Oh, Jaban, I'm just to

stay at home. Mom. No you're not. You're raising up world changers and history makers. Jaban, I'm just a barista. No no, you're keeping us alive. Dog like. We don't live without you. We need you. I'm just a real estate agent. I'm just a that. No. No, no, all together are our corporate Yes, changes the world. I want to be used by God. I want God to do something great with my life. And in order for my one life to make a difference. Umber one, I need one word. I need one word. First one, said the

Lord said to abram Our, God speaks. Please don't skip past this again and again and again. In scripture, God meets with his people. And if you read the Bible, you're gonna find this out. God never shows up without a word. If you're in the presence of God, you will be in the presence of the voice of God. That's why the presence of God is so important. That's why so important that we get in church, because when we get in his presence, he always speaks. He never

shows up and doesn't talk. God speaks. God loves to talk. God knows how powerful words are, and that is why he speaks, because he knows something we don't know that with just one word from God, our whole life can change. God still speaks to his people today. God will give you a word. He'll give you a word about your marriage. He'll give you a word about your future. He'll give you a word about your ministry. God will speak to you.

I'm not talking about being flaky or kookie and telling people, Yeah, God told me what to wear today. Now I didn't. God didn't tell me to wear black. I'm just trying to be a little more slimming. Amen. Pastor Stephen eats protein. I eat carbs. Praise the Lord. We balance each other out. It's the it's the unity and harmony of the faith. Praise God. Ah, that's funny. It's it's that. It's that God will speak to you. God will lead you. God will God will God. God will talk to you about

your kids. Better listen up, teenagers. God will start talking to your parents about you. He'll start He'll start telling on you. God will, God will leave, God will guide if if you feel like you're hitting a wall right now, if you feel like you're hitting a glass ceiling right now, you need a word from God. And notice who spoke. The Bible said, the Lord spoke. This word the Lord is the Hebrew word Yahweh or also translated Jehovah. Yahweh

is God's most holy and appropriate names. His most holy and appropriate name, Yahweh means the uncreated one, preexistent one. I've just always been God above all small g gods, Lord above all small l lords. God says Abram. This is the first time they meet. I want you to know my name. God has a name. See, God is not a name. God is a title. I'm a human, but my name is shaven. God is God. But he has a name, and it's Yahweh. And when he introduces himself to Abraham, he says, I need you to know

my name. I need you to know who I am. I am Yahweh God. The reason that this is important is because Abraham was a polytheis just a little fancy word for he had many gods. And God is letting Abraham know I'm the God above all those little g gods that you've been serving. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So if Abraham needed water, he'd go pray to the rain god. If he need a fire and go pray to the fire God. If Sarah couldn't get pregnant, he'd go pray

to the baby God. If he need food, to go pray to food God if he needed if he need a victory in battle, he go pray to the God of war. He had a god for everything. And now the Lord shows up and says, yo, you don't need them anymore. Yes, yes, yes, you got me. Now you need water, you come talk to me. You're in a drought. You come talk to me. Why can't get pregnant? You come talk to me. Need food? You come talk to me.

Going into battle, you come talk to me. You don't need all these other little g gods anymore that are doing nothing for you. Yahweh is here. You don't need to settle. Stop settling for little g gods that are making you feel safe but are actually keeping you small. Yahweh is here. Yahweh wants to speak to you. Yahwegh has a word for you. And what you need is Yahweh. This is why when God would introduce himself to Moses in Exodustry, he would use the same verbic. You would say,

I am that I am. I am Yahweh. You need healing. I am you need provision. I am you need wisdom. I am you need a breakthrough. I am you need help. I am you need encouragement. I am you need the healing of a broken heart. Whatever you need. I am. So stop running to little ge gods that can do nothing for you. You God, I am. And I want to tell somebody here today, I am is here, right here, right now. Because he is, I am healed, and because he is, I do have everything I need. I think

it's time for our first praise to break somebody. Thank God that his name is Yahweh God. Some of y'all rolling your eyes because you're going, hey, But I'm an American. I know there's only one God. I got it. I got it. But we all settle for little g gods. We settle for the God of approval and and the God of the fear of man, and and and and the God of culture, and the God of popularity, and we we and the God of fear and the and

we we all the god of greed. We all settle for little g gods that again they they they make us feel safe, because we feel like any god that you can control your flesh likes. That's why the Bible says that we have to pull down strongholds. See, a stronghold is a fortress. That's one of the meanings of the words. So when we hide behind our stronghold, we

feel safe, but it's actually keeping us small. But another word for stronghold is also casket burial grounds, So we think we're safe hi in our stronghold, but it's actually killing us spiritually worshiping things that cannot get us what we really We know what we want, but we're going to all the wrong places for it. Doesn't that sound like Mary when she went looking for the living Savior in the wrong place and the Angel said, why are you looking for the living among the dead? Why are

you here? You're looking for the right thing, but you're looking for it in the wrong place. And someone fifteen says that we will be like what we worship. Someone fifteen says, be careful, because if you're not careful, you will end up worshiping god gods that have eyes but cannot see in ears that cannot hear, in hearts that cannot understand, and hands that cannot move, and feet that cannot walk, and those who worship them will be like them. So if I worship dead things, I'm going to be

dead spiritually. But I don't worship a dead God. I don't worship little g gods. I worship Yah Wigh God. He is alive forevermore. And because he's alive, we live. Because he we can rise and Sarah, when you worship the Living God, your dead womb will come back to life. An elevation church, when you worship the Living God, to dreams can come back to life. And whatever you need, He is, He is, I am, He is your way God. He's got a word for you today. Somebody say, man

to this preacher. I just want to remind you. Our God is not an idea. He is real. He's not a concept. He is alive. He is not a historical rumor. He is moving and active in our world. And he is not distant. He is right here, right now. Our God can be known, his voice can be heard, in his presence, can be felt. You need a word from God. Secondly, you need one risk. They're gonna have to take a

risk because here's what the Lord told him. Leave. I wish it was like, Abraham, you're my son, I'm your father. I'm so proud of you. Let's just hang out. It wasn't That'd have been great, he says Abram, I'm the Lord. Okay, we got that settled. Yes, sir, leave, Leave your native country, leave your relatives, leave your father's family, leave familiar, leave what you know for what you don't know that I know.

But we don't like risk. We like comfort. Now at every campus, right now, y'all are seated where you always sit because you like comfort. You know where to go, you like your angle, you like where you We all like comfort. We all like repetition. We hate change. And yet what God is calling us into is risk. God is asking us to let go of control to follow his call. Friend, you can have control or you can

have faith, but you can't have both. As the most pitiful clap I've ever heard at elevation in church, and I've been watching for a long time, I was because we want control. And here's why some of you, I'll just say, are spiritually miserable because you are trying to balance control and faith, and you can't because even the control you think you feel isn't really control anyway, it's just a false sense of control. And so you might as well lean into faith. You might as well lean

into what God has for you. You You might as well trust the plane of God for your life. You've got to have to take a risk. Somebody say, take a risk. Everything you want in your life, every good thing you want in your life, every great thing you want in your life, every god thing you want in your life, is outside of your comfort zone, not inside outside. The call of God requires leaving, leaving what you know for what God knows, leaving your plan for God's plan, leaving

your will for God's will. And and it's it's so much better. See before you've done it, it sounds so scary, but once you've said yes to God, you realize, Oh, that's where the joy is, that's where the peace is, that's where the contentment is, that's where the life is. It's in the following of God, not trying to get God to follow well my plan, not inviting God into

my plan, but finding out God's plan. I've again been in this now for twenty years, and I've seen so many people experience some level of connection with Jesus, they follow God on some level, maybe even go into ministry, and then they go back to their old life. I don't judge that. I get it. I'm not better than them or not better than them. I'll tell you, I think they go back because they just couldn't leave familiar They couldn't leave their country, they couldn't leave what they knew.

This new life sounds really great on Sunday, but feels really awkward on Wednesday. This new life feels so hope filled when you're hearing past for Stephen preach, but by Thursday you're wondering what the heck am I doing with my life? Because I'm leaving what I've known for so long for something new, and it the hope of it feels so good, but the walking it out feels so scary. Can I get a witness from one honest saint in the house. I didn't like my old life, but I

knew my old life. I didn't trust my old friends, but at least I had friends. I'm not proud of what I used to do on the weekend, but at least I have something to do on the weekend. I don't like how I would respond to anger, But at least I knew what to do in those moments. I knew I knew how to act with my emotions. I knew what to I knew how to act with my lusts, and I knew how to act with my depression. I knew how to act with what I had experienced all of my life. And now I'm in this new life

and it's so awkward and it's so uncomfortable. And now I'm having to go to church, and I'm going to church alone. And I used to have a crew, but I haven't found a new crew yet. So here I am, and I'm walking into church, and I'm walking in and there's sweet little people with scientists. Are you so ready? And We're like, I'm trying my best. I'm giving it a shot, and I don't like where I was. I'm so grateful for what God is doing, but this new

thing is so unfamiliar to me. So we can end up sounding like the children of Israel who go to Moses and say, Moses, we miss the leaks and the onions of Egypt. Now here's the kicker. They gave it to us at no cost, no cost, about four hundred years of slavery and abuse and humiliation and pain no cost. See, because if you're not careful, you will sugarcoat your past and you'll remember the good and ignore the bad. And

that's what the devil. The devil will remind you of the good of your past while ignoring the pain of your past, and you'll start see, you'll start missing the spice of your old life, the garlic and onions of your old life, because now you're in a new life. And this new life is its manna and quail. I don't know, I don't know the last time you were going out on a date night and you're like, you know, I'm really craving like some quail and crackers, just like hmm.

Now this is for another time and another sermon. But every time God would move Israel, he'd give him a new diet. So they went from leaks and onions and to manna and quail. But there is a promise land. Oh. I want to talk to anybody in a wilderness right now. I want to talk to anyone who's left their old life but hasn't entered fully into their new life. I want to talk to anybody that has left Egypt but hasn't quite made it to the promise. There is milk

and honey for you. There are vineyards you're not gonna have to till, and houses you're not gonna have to build in cities that you're not gonna have to construct. There is bitter days for you. But you've got to make it through the wilderness. You've got to make it through the dark. You've got to make it through the manner. You've got to make it through the quail. You've got to make it through. I can still remember Egypt. I've

never seen my promise land. And it's kind of easy for us preachers to get up here and preach the stuff because we're experiencing fruit now and some of you are still in seed form, so you're still in the dark. You're still wondering what is this whole thing? But if you just won't quit, I get some help in this church right now. If you just won't give up in the ground, if you just won't quit in the wilderness, if you just won't quit in the storm, there is

a land for you. There is fruit for you. There is good for you. There is breakthrough for you. But you're gonna have to trust God. You're gonna have to leave familiar. You're gonna have to leave one place stander into another place. Who God has a place for you, a people for you. But you have to be willing to leave where you are for what God has for you. I cannot break the curse and stay in the familiar. I cannot change the future without first ruthlessly leaving my past.

I cannot step into the new thing till I leave the old thing. So I must leave what is comfortable for the Kingdom call on my life. And it won't just happen once. It will happen many times throughout your life where God will ask you to take a step of faith and you're going to have to believe Him and trust him. And it's scary and it's new. I don't know if you've ever seen this offensive question in the scriptures when Jesus would walk up to people and go,

so do you want to be healed? Has anybody ever read that? And you're in the flesh and you read that and go, I'm start tomorrow again. I can't write now because it's like what But see, if you allow one way of doing life to carry you for so long, it can be challenging to now walk by faith, and I have to get to the point of going. I do want to be healed. I do want to grow. I do want to leave this for what you have for me. I do want to trust you into the unknown.

It's gonna be scary, it's gonna be new, But God, if you're in it, I want it. I'm challenging someone to take the risk, to leave familiar, to leave the comfort zone and enter into what God has for you. Friend, it was more comfortable for Abram to stay where he was. It was more comfortable for David to stay with the sheep. It would have been more comfortable for Gideon to stay in the press. It would have been more comfortable for Elisha to tread his fields. It would have been more

comfortable for Peter to stay in the boat. It would have been more comfortable for the Apostles to stay in Jerusalem. But nothing great will happen in the comfort zone. And if God is leading you right now, God is guiding you right now, God is pushing you out of the nest and into what He has for you. Say yes to it. Because it's scary for a moment, it's scary for a season, but the fruit of it is so amazing that I'm on the other side now at thirty eight years old, and I've seen the fruit of some

of my obedience, and I go, thank God. I said yes when it was scary. Thank God. I left familiar when I didn't know where I was going, but I was trusting God. And now I'm walking, beginning to walk in a legacy that was so terrifying. Then. See, I call this a risk, but it's really not a risk because God is so amazing. It feels like a risk to us, but it's not to God. God is not like he wants you to leave. We'll see what happens.

You nervous, abram me too. He knows. He knows what he has for you, dad, he knows what he has for your family, knows what he has for your children, he knows what he has for your future. So if it feels scary, do not be afraid. Better days are in front of you. Lastly, one move, one move, one move. So so first he says leave, and because we're hard headed, we don't get it. Here's the next thing he says, and go, Wonderful, that's me. I need the second one too.

Because I'm He says, leave your family, leave your native country, leaf familiar, and go. WA's where he tells him to go to a land I will show you, and I will make you a great nation. Abraham, go where I'll show you. It's gonna be really hard to convince the wife Lord Abraha. If I show you everything, faith will not be required. See Abraham, and you're going, there will be a making. Go and I will make you. But if you go and you already know where you're going,

there is no making. The transformation is not in the destination. Oh man, When I get there without the process of the going, I will get to where I want to go and still not be happy. Where there is clarity, faith is not required. And I love those moments. I love clear moments, but they're rare. Can I get a win Who's saying amen to me over here? Yeah? It's rare. I love clarity, it just doesn't happen a lot. Most of my life is in the going, and then God

does the showing. And while I'm going, God is doing the making, and I have to trust him in that. Step by step, day by day, God is doing a work in me while I go, not totally sure where I'm going, but believing that if He's leading me is

for my good. So I'm gonna keep walking, not sure where I'm going, but I'm gonna keep walking, not exactly sure what God has planned, but I trust this plan, and I know that even more important than where He's taking me, what is important is that I'm following him, that I'm trusting him, because it is in that process

that God is changing me. So in the following, in the going, in the moving he is making, and I'll have the team come up, and I just I want to talk to people because I know there's so much uncertainty right now in our lives, and there's so many changes, and there's so much unknown right now. I just want to tell every person who's listening to me that in the midst of financial uncertainty, follow, in the midst of wars and rumors of wars, follow, in the midst of

what's going to happen next, follow, in the midst of pandemics. Follow. It feels like over the last two years, it's just been thing after thing after thing. There has been so very few things that have been consistent in our life over the last few years, but there can be a consistent There can be a constant, and that is following Jesus, that is trusting God, that is walking with God. And God. I just want to declare, he will sustain us through

this season. He sustained you in nineteen, he sustained you in twenty, he sustained you through twenty twenty one. He's going to sustain us in twenty two. He's going to sustain us through twenty three, twenty four, and on and on. Our God is the same yesterday, today and forever. And when everything is changing, I thank God for his sameness, when everything is moving, I thank God that he's unsakable. I thank God that in the midst of so much

fear and worry and God, what is next. I thank God that he is holding my hand, that he is walking with me, talkting with me, and he's not just moving me. He's changing me, and in my going he's making and he's making me a great nation. And he's making your name a great name. And he's taking shame off of your name, an addiction off of your name, strong holds off of your name, curses off of your name. Your children will not know the struggles you're struggled with

the struggles. Your father struggled with the struggles. Your parents had to know. They will not know where because in your going there is a making somebody say, man, so I'm going. And then here's what you gotta know. You never follow God horizontally. You always follow Jesus vertically. So maybe four said I'm going from strength to strength. John one said, I'm going from grace to grace, Romans one

said I'm going from faith to faith. And the Apostle Paul said in tewod Crinians chapter three, and I need you to know this right now because there is so much uncertainty, there's so much fear in our nation, there's so much worry. Here's what you need to know. Even if you're going through a struggle like we saw in that video, you are going from glory to glory by the spirit of God. I'm following him up. I'm following him into his will. I'm following him into what he

has for me. And it's a little scary, and it's a little new, and it's but he's making me. I'm not who I was. I'm not who I'm not who I was, I'm not who I thought I was, I'm not. I'm not who I was told I was. He's changed me, but he but he changed me in the following I can say this, over twenty four years of so much life change, so much changing in my world over twenty four years, and even over just the last two years, there's basically being one consistent, and it's him. I just followed.

And when the cloud moved, I moved. And when the cloud stopped, I stopped. And when when he said go, I went. I'm not saying I was perfect. I'm not saying I never made I made a lot of mistakes. But if you will go, he will make you. And there's a lot right now. There's a lot of decisions being made right now in our world. There's a lot of should I do this, Should I do that? Should I sign this? Should I sign that? Should I sell this? Should I keep that? Should I? Would you follow him

and trust him to do the making? Would you trust him to lead you besides still waters? You know that scripture doesn't say he leads me besides still waters. When everything's good, he said, I will create for you a space. It don't matter what's going on. I'll create a space of stillness for you, of peace for you, a place for you. Stop saying when I get there, Abram, when I get there, it'll all no, no no, no. Right now, in the going I'm making and he's doing something in

me right now. It might hurt a little bit, it might be a little uncomfortable, it might be, But I would so rather be a God made man than a self made man. I would so rather be built by God than built by men. I would so rather be built by the unchanging hand of God than the ever changing hands of culture. And then he says, and then he says, and it won't stop with you, It's going

to go through you. So the blessing of God is not just for more stuff and bigger things and brighter, shinier toys, not against any of that, just not where it should end. Ever, he said, I'm gonna do it through you, Abram. You don't even know it yet. But thousands of years from now, there's gonna be a preacher standing on a stage. Abrahm, what have said? What's the stage? You don't need to know right now. But he's and he's gonna be talking about you, and your faith is

gonna build their faith. And now and now your faith is gonna build your children's faith and your children's children's faith, because what God wants to do for you, he wants to do through you. One move, one move? What's your move? What's your move? Is it? Is it serving in church? Is it? Is it finally jumping into love week coming up in July? Is that your move? Is it baptism? Is my hair gonna get wet? Yeah? Yeah, it's gonna get wet. Yeah. Can it wears a shower cap? Sure?

But yeah, you're but you're going under. Where are people gonna think we're gonna be so happy for you, We're gonna cheer you on. We're not? Is it? Uh? Is it marriage counseling? Maybe it's marriage counseling, sir. If your wife is asking for marriage counseling, you need to go because she's been thinking about it, Fred at least two years before she ever said anything to you. Uhh, that's the word of the Lord for somebody right there? Is it? Is it? Is it getting alone with God for a

few days? Parents, because you can't seem to get a breakthrough with your teenage. Is it time to just go hide away and maybe fast for a couple of days and say God, I need a word from a girl. I need a word from a boy. He'll give you one for many. Your move is to give your life to Christ. There's people in this room, at every location online that have just never have never said yes. And

I want to give you that opportunity. The same prayer I prayed June ten, nineteen ninety eight, the same prayer Pastor Stephen, Pastor howly prayed at some point in their life, that prayer of surrender, that prayer of Jesus. I need you. If you've never prayed that prayer, I want to give you that opportunity. Maybe you feel far from God. You know what, Javin, I was really walking with the Lord. I love the Lord. I was serving God. And then man, I just I got distracted. I got is it time

to come home? Time to come home. He's not gonna meet you at the door, arms folded, where have you been? He's gonna meet you out in the street, arms open, whites and come on in. I missed you. I love you crazy about you. I just wonder, in this sacred space of prayer, would you just bow your head and close your eyes for a moment. Every location, if you're not driving, Epham. Just close your eyes for a moment as well. Javed, I need Jesus. I need forgiveness. I

need I need new life. I need hope. I need to know that heaven is my home. I need to know that God is my father. Jesus is Lord. I need to know his presence is with me. I need Jesus. Pray with me. The Bible says, if you would confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, if you would believe in your heart, God would save you. I've made too many mistakes. Nope, not for the grace of God. I'm

a pretty good person. God doesn't want pretty good. Our perfect Holy God requires perfection, and that's only through the blood of Jesus. This is for you. I've never given my life to Christ or I need to come back to Christ. Pray with me now, and I'm gonna ask every person, every location online, out loud, pray with me altogether. Say Jesus, I believe in you. I believe you died for me and rose again. I give you my life and I commit to following you, trusting you. I declare

Jesus is Lord of my life. Now still no one looking, no one moved, but if that's you right now at every location, I'm gonna count to three, and when I hit three, i'm gonna ask you to raise your hand. If that was you online, there's probably prompters as well, and I'll let those online give you those prompters. But if you're in the room, if you're in a room, i'm gonna I'm just gonna hit three to give you a moment of courage and a moment of faith. Javed,

that's me, I'm giving my life to Jesus. Or I'm rededicating my life to Jesus. If that's you, just as an act of faith, I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand to begin this walk with Jesus. One, two, and three. Can you shoot your hand up high all over here here and here here here, all over here, all over in here. Just keep waving at me. I want to see anybody else, anybody, anybody right here, beautiful. I know at every location it's happening. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Come on,

one life. God is doing something in us and Jesus. Let's say, Oh God, I need you him a lift your volice sake. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, there are a couple of things I'd love for you to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast. You can also help us reach others by investing today at elevationchurch dot org, slash GiB and thanks again for joining us on the Elevation Podcast