Try Higher

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Holly said to tell you about my hype track. But it's not a hype track. It's a hope track. I'm actually gonna use it to get into my sermon today. I used to do these videos at the beginning of every year. I did it a few years, and it was designed to help you when you need motivation from God's word and you need to listen to something that will fire you up, but also at the same time

I mean I could play it for you right.

Now, just to get us into the message. Because last week we said He's the God of Away. We were singing he will make away, and this track says, with God, there's always a way.

With God, there's always a way.

Nod your head like this and say always Now, look at your neighbors, say by faith, I will find it.

All right, y'all, take a seat and watch the screen.

Let's go.

To the Great. I am No limits exist.

Therefore my potential to glorify him is endless. I'm moving forward in the light of what.

He's spoken, and every other voice must let go, because I know with every step he gives me strength.

Almighty God is fighting for me.

His spirit is my guide, his strength is my supply, and every need will be provided by his hand at just the right time.

I don't need to.

See it to believe it. I know the truth, and I will do it, and do it, and do it until my life becomes the proof. See he hid me at his quiver, prepared me in his shadow for such a.

Time as this.

I'm a weapon, not a hostage.

I'm on an assignment. Nothing can stop it his time.

Take back my mind, take back my life, and break every lie with the promise of God gos.

With God, there's always away. By faith, I will find it. With God, there's always away. By faith, I will fight it.

What is a challenge with a giant waiting to fall?

What is a mountain to a God who does impossible?

What is an obstacle to a God whose word turns sees to walls?

What is a set down?

What a set up for a miracle?

What is an enemy to a God who shuts the lions mouth? What is a fire to a God whose hand can sets me out? A thousand angels surround me. Now speak to the stronghold and.

Watch it come down.

A thousand angels surround me. Now speak to the stronghold, and once it come down.

With God, there's always away.

By faith, I will find it with God, always away away my faith.

I will fight it.

If CoP's got power, I've got power.

If God's got strength. I've got strength.

If God got victory, I've got victory.

If it's in him, it's in me.

Because what's his is mine?

What's his it's mine. It's time gous. What's this it's mine?

What's this?

It's mine?

What's this?

It's mine?

It's going God.

With God, there's always away.

My faith. I will fight it.

With God.

If there's always away my faith, I will fight it.

I gotta sleep. I gotta sleep. I got an army. I gotta God, the Creator than North, it's already.

I gotta hoping.

I gotta call him.

I got someone to be How about you lose?

I don't look get behind it.

With God, there's always a way.

They will find it.

With God, there's always a way.

They will find.

My pay.

I will find it.

There's always pay.

I will find it. There's always away.

Iday I will biden God.

There's my pay.

I will find it.

With God. There's always a way.

By faith.

I will find it. With God. There's always a way by faith. I will find it.

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I hope you can use it. You can go stream it or whatever like that.

Do some push ups, or some burpies, or some kettlebell swings or some Bulgarian split squads come more special. Thanks to Jalen Ramsey for being in our video. Appreciate that praying for you that God will bring you back better than ever. David, I think I want.

You in it. Next year, you do the next one. Can we sign a contract?

I want to preach right from that thought, look at your neighbor and say, with God, there's always a way, and by faith.

I will find it.

The beginning of this year, I was making myself a bunch of little statements affirmations that were scriptural, and then I started sharing them with people, and that was one of them, just to encourage myself past the hurdles and discouragements that life offers us, and sometimes the.

Hurdles in my own head.

You know how many of you have hypothetical hurdles that you create, as if the challenges that life gives you are not enough.

You just make some in your spare time. And that one came to me one day.

I was driving somewhere and I was thinking about something that I couldn't do, and I said, with God, there's always a way, and by faith I will find it, and it felt like both parts were important. The first part lets me know that even right now in my life, God is clearing a path for his purpose to be accomplished concerning me and my family and our church and our ministry, and your family and your seed and everything that God has called you to do.

He's right now working on your behalf. Give God praise if you believe that.

The harder part for me to get out of my mouth is and by faith, I will find it, because sometimes I just want Him to make it so obvious and so easy.

And the scripture that I want to share with you very familiar story.

I won't be long today because what I want to say is actually very clear to me. God gave me a word for this moment for your life. It's in Luke chapter five, and you can sit. We don't have to stand back up. But let me read you the whole story and then show you something. In two verses, say it again with God. There's always a way, I say, by faith, I will find it. This story in Luke chapter five, Verse seventeen was probably the most vivid illustration

Wlim reverse.

Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, we have seen remarkable things today.

Thank you Lord for your word.

Now, this encounter between Jesus and the paralyzed man is really hiding a deeper encounter between Jesus and the religious system. The Pharisees, the teachers of the law, these ruling class elites in Judaism had come to not necessarily learn from Jesus, but maybe they came to see if he was doing things the right way according to the law. And Jesus did not come to abolish the law like it was bad.

So whenever you read about Jesus doing.

Something in the Bible where he's healing or feeding or teaching, remember his primary purpose for coming to the earth was to pay the price for your sin, to establish his kingdom so that we could be forgiven and free. In the process of this, he taught amazing things, and he healed people who were indeed very grateful for their healing, but his primary purpose was to demonstrate that he was the son of God so that he could die, rise again,

I barely even watch TV because I don't know if I can find the best show to watch.

I'll shop for three hours and not watch anything, just because I wanted to be the best one, the right one, the good one. I don't think I've ever really been short on effort and drive, so that's why I was drawn to this particular verse. I don't know what part caught your attention in the passage, and I don't know if you've ever heard this story before, but the thing that really got me this time around eating it was in verse eighteen, where it said some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.

And tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. So like I have the.

Benefit of having preached this passage many times, I know that it's recorded in Mark's Gospel, Matthew's Gospel, and Luke's Gospel. In Matthew's Gospel, it doesn't say anything about the removal of the roof, because that wasn't really the whole point of the passage. You know, roofs come and go, apparently, but the righteousness of God endures forever something like that. The passage in Mark is a little bit more exact. It talks about how many men there were. There were four, well,

There are some areas of your life where you are blocked.

There are some areas in your life where you are running your head up against the same habit, the same wall, the same way of doing it, over and over again. And even if you experience short term victory, it seems to be just a precursor to a deeper point of disappointment when you fall back into the same thing again.

So y'all are gonna do like that today, that real confused thing. Okay.

So I have areas in my life where at certain times before I have been blocked. And that's exactly the scene here, right, They're trying to bring this man to Jesus and they are blocked outside the door. Now Here, I should differentiate what the Bible says here is really important because this is.

A specific word.

This is not just a generic Bible sermon on you can do it. You can make it tin up. You know this is not a go get them tiger kind of sermon. This is a custom tailored message to a certain type of block.

Because in verse eighteen put that back up there for me.

It says that some men came, four of them, carrying a paralyzed man on a mat, and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. They did what they came, carr well back all the way up. They came carrying a paralyzed man and.

Tried. They tried.

There have been times in my life where I said I tried, but I only kind of tried. There have been certain things that certain tasks, certain responsibilities, certain.

Goals that I kind of tried at. And you know exactly the kind I'm talking about. You know, Oh, I I tried to call them. You didn't want them to pick up.

So when they didn't pick up, it was a sigh of relief, just enough to say when your boss asked, I tried.

Or as me as a teenager, I only had one or two chores.

My parents didn't make me work very hard around the house, but I didn't need to cut the grass sometimes and then guess.

What I tried to cut the grass down, but there was no gas.

In the lawnmower. And that man showed me. He showed me the difference between trying and trimming the grass. You like that because he showed me this is where the gas is. This is how you put it in. Until you put the gas that I bought in the first place in the lawnmower that you claim as empty.

Don't say I tried, but I was only twelve. Now now I'm much more responsible.

I'm much better at this and this passage of scripture. It's not about a teenager who said, well, trug do the test.

Put my book at the thing, and then the dog and the thing, and the dog ate my dog ate my mom, so I couldn't do my homework. These men, I just need to give you this. These men carry.

Another grown man who knows how many miles to.

Try to get him to Jesus.

So this is not They said, oh, yeah, I'll pray for you about that problem in your life, knowing good and well, you're not going to pray. You're just trying to wrap up the conversation. You just don't want to give them any money. You just don't want to help them get in rehab. You just say I'll pray for you. This is not that type of situation.

And I want to point that.

Out because there are some times in your life where you haven't really tried.

Reading the first.

Chapter of the book about.

The diet is not trying the diet.

Comeing to church three times in twelve months is not really trying to build your relationship with God. That's a frequent attender right there. She's got the membership guard. And I'm not saying it to shame you, because I'm telling you there are areas in my life where I say I tried did I?

Where I say I listened?

Did I. I have this friend who coaches professional athletes CEOs. He does all this mental coaching, and he says when he hears somebody say this phrase, he loves it because.

He sets them up. They say I want to do it.

I've tried everything, And when they say that, he goes, oh, everything, you've tried everything.

Okay, let me see the list and they go what list?

And he goes, well, I mean if you tried everything, certainly you kept a spreadsheet of everything you tried, because if you really tried everything, then you had to list.

Everything so you could evaluate what worked and what didn't.

So if you tried everything, bring me the list, because if you tried everything, then you had to combine certain things in certain sequences to say I tried everything. So you tried this and that and that didn't work. So then you tried this, then that, so then you tried this and that. Let me see the list where you tried everything, and he said. At this point, they crumble, Okay, not everything. Not everything.

There are some things in our lives where we have a desire. I like to call it a cycle.

It's a cycle where I get inspired, I try, I get tired, and now, well I tried. Let me walk you back through that real slow. Y'all can do this on digging deeper and you can break this down. I'm inspired, I'm trying. I'm tired.

I tried.

I talked to a lady. I said, you should to church. She said, oh, I tried. I said, you tried. She said, yeah, I can't. They made men go in a different room. It was like the room was full. I said, what time did you get there? She said ninety three. I said, you know it starts at nine thirty, so you know if you had tried, like even ten minutes earlier, you probably could have snuck in the top.

But she tried.

Do you do you have an area of your life right now where you have said I tried, or you're telling yourself. I tried everything to get through to my kid. I tried everything to make that better. I tried everything everything.

Show me the list, and yet for those.

Of you who are like God, I should have skipped today. He's making me feel terrible. The message that I came.

To bring you today is not that I don't think you're actually trying, or that you just need to try harder, because that's where we take this a lot of times, right Like, all right, I'm gonna work out eight days a week, nine days a week with God. There's always a way by faith, I will find it. I'll make another day in the week. I'll put another star in the sky. I'll do another one, y'all. I don't think you can try much harder than these men try.

They carried a grown man all.

The way to see this wonder working rebel priest named Jesus, who was healing people and teaching the kingdom and laying down the authority of the word of God in an incarnate way that amazed everybody that hurt him. And they bring this man on a mat and he can't do anything for himself, and there were only four of them, and I don't care what you bench. Four people carrying one grown man who can't move for any distance.

Counts as trying.

So they tried to.

Get in, and the Bible says something very interesting. It says because of the crowd, they couldn't find a way. And so I don't think this is a passage talking about.

How more effort will bring greater results.

And I think a lot of times the reason we go from inspired to trying, to tired to tried is because we try harder, harder, harder, harder. What happens is you try harder and harder and harder and harder, it gets heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier. And some of you are here today and you're going, well, I did try, or I would try, But every time I try to try, I can't even try to try because I trip on the things that I tried for in the past, and I'm trying now, But it's what happened

I didn't see.

Anybody else in the passage carrying a paralyzed man. I didn't see the Pharisees carrying anybody on a mat. I didn't see the religious teachers trying to help anybody. You know, the truth of it is, you haven't really struggled. You haven't really experienced struggle until you stepped in to try to bring somebody else.

With you along the journey. So they tried. And I want to do something right now that may seem sacrilegious, but I need to do it to get the point across.

Because there's somebody I'm preaching to you and you are blocked, but you've tried. You blocked, You've been blocked, but you have tried it's very different. Then I just didn't even try it. I just didn't even do it. I just didn't It's very different. It's a different kind of tired when you've really tried. That's why I like to preach to youth sometimes, because they haven't even really tried yet. They haven't even got tired of themselves yet. They're not even sick of themselves yet.

You know, I don't even have to do.

It, have the work I have to do with you when I preach to you all, y'all, over thirty people, over forty people, over fifty people. I'm tired of this. I tried everything you're up there talking about. I tried all of that. And now look, they tried, and Verse eighteen says that they couldn't get in, but they tried to take him into the house, lay him before Jesus.

Now, I love that.

What I love about it, though, is it says when they could not find a way to do this what they originally intended to do because of the crowd, and then there's a comma. It doesn't say that they started a fight in the parking lot so their friend could get in. I love that because do something for me real quick. This might disturb you, but I want y'all to take away the second part of that verse. So they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, comma, Now take away the rest.

What would you do next in that situation? What are you doing in that situation?

Because if we make a few substitutions here, we're not talking about four men that lived two thousand years ago anymore.

We're talking about you. When they could not find a way.

Because of the crowd, comma, they looked at each other and said, well, we tried and turned around and went home. This story would probably not be in the Bible. If the men brought the man all the way to Jesus, encountered resistance at the door, tried, begged, bribed, I'll do anything, don't you see this man needs help now? See you're wondering the same thing I wondered. Why wouldn't somebody else give him their spot? But paralyzed people were not given

Rather than including you, they would exclude you.

So the man on the mat didn't get a special spot for having no ability to walk. In fact, he had more obstacles. The one who needed it the most had the least access to it. And might I just ask a question, Church, why do we make it so hard for people to come to God sometimes? Why do we put up so many restrictions for people to come into the presence of God?

Why do we judge.

Others for struggling with stuff that if we were in a situation, we might have the same struggle or truth be told, why do we judge people for stuff that we haven't been even free from ourselves for five years.

Why do we judge people for stuff that.

If they showed everything we thought about on a movie screen, we would be embarrassed.

About it too. So I'm glad these men didn't start a fight.

Because if they start a fight, they go to prison and their friend doesn't.

Have a ride home. How do you deal with it? Put the half verse up again, because I want you to think about how you're going to finish this sentence in your life right now.

When they could not find a way because of the crowd, When they could not find a way because of the debt, when they could not find a way because of the genetics, when they could not find a way because of the addiction, When they could not find a way because of the broken heart, when they could not find a way because of the divorce, when they could not find a way because of the betrayal, when they could not find a way because of their boss. I'm coming all through this crowd.

With God.

Somebody shout with God. There's always a way, And just because I don't see it when I first show up, and just because I can't point to it yet, and just because it's not obvious, and just because I can't really get my truck through there, and just because I can't get there dancing, and just because I can't get there in style, and just because of m be a few years late, and just because somebody told me you can't go this way, and people like you can't do that,

The teachers in the law are more important.

Than us anyway, and so if they've got the good seats, we might as well go away.

This is you.

Stopping your miracle, your maturity, your ministry, your legacy, your freedom because you stop mid sentence. How does this sentence end? Give me the half sentence again. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they turned around and went home, which they had every right to do, because they already did more than anybody else in the whole passage except Jesus. They already did more than the Pharisees. What were the Pharisees doing again?

Sitting there.

Like they're about to judge Jesus. Yeah, like they're about to judge Jesus, like they're.

About to catch him doing something wrong. I don't know whether to say this or to say that. You think I should say it.

I don't know if you could handle it. I don't know you can hand all right. It's in the same verse. They were sitting there, they were teaching the law.

They had come from our village of Gali and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with Jesus.

Told you you weren't ready the power of the Lord.

Wasn't with them. The power of the Lord was with I think you need to take your power back from people, yeah, and bring that thing to Jesus, because the power is not with them. The power is not with them. I'm not saying God can't use people. I just told you to join any group. But what I am saying is that there have been times in your life where you have thought that people needed to give you permission, people needed to cheer you on, people needed to understand you.

Of what I need to believe.

Jesus for.

I don't mean don't be nice. I don't mean don't make friends. I don't mean don't be congenial. I'm just saying that there's nothing that these teachers of the law can do to stop God from doing what God has made up his mind to do. The Power of the Lord is with Jesus. Jesus is the.

Son of God.

If Jesus is in the house, healing is in the house. If Jesus is in the house, freedom is in the house. If Jesus gives the command and faith makes.

The move, then the glory of God will be the result. How many are glad that the power is with Jesus, all right? So they try to get in, they can't get in. This is me every time I try, I'm inspired, I'm trying. I try harder, I try harder. It gets heavier, it gets heavier. This is what keeping the laws like. This is what trying to be right with God through your works is right. This is what discipline without actual

Watch what.

They did.

Oh, I loved the Bible. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd.

That's what's right in front of you, and you can't push through it, and you can't go over it, can't go on.

When they could not find a way to do this because of the row, now finish the verse. They went.

Up.

The spirit of the Lord says, don't try harder, try higher. Oh Holly, Ferdie, come preaching this thing. If it's just for me and you.

I hear God saying, try higher, try higher, try higher, try higher, because see there's plenty of room on the roof. See there's plenty of room on the roof. I said, there's plenty of room on the roof. It's not that you hadn't tried hard enough. You've been trying. You got dirt under your fingernails, you came a long way, you did a lot of stuff. It's not that you haven't tried harder. It's that you haven't tried higher. And I know a man, I said, I know a man. Give

For God has given Jesus the name that is above.

Every day that the name of Jesus, every name had Scott him.

The house and Henry to them has Scott him the best.

Hat five three people say I'm going higher.

Higher, higher, fire, not harder, higher, not harder, hire, not harder, fire.

Not harder fire. Look by my flesh, y my face, whose whip? My God? There's alway soway. Then I try not fun mine.

They don't fuck brower, but find the spirit. I hear John the Revelator saying, come up higher, come up higher, come up higher, high, now.

High five everybody you can reach and say.

I'm going up, whether you come or not, higher, higher, higher. Oh, now I get it. It's not that I wasn't doing enough. It's not that I wasn't trying enough. It said I wasn't trusting enough, because I kept thinking if I couldn't get in the way I wanted to get in, it wasn't it to be.

No, it's not trying harder. I don't have to force it.

I can make it.

Why fake trusting him who was and is and is to come. So that means I don't go by what I see. I don't try harder.

If I just had to try harder than Christ died for nothing. The gospel isn't try harder, it's try because if you ever call his name, He will reach down and get you up.

Do I have three witnesses in the.

Whole church that if you ever humble yourself and say, Almighty Father, I need.

To right now, He'll look upon you with mercy and grace and compassion and.

Help for your time of me.

That's the word I needed, man, because sometimes it gets heavy because I try harderhiher. But God said, try higher.

Be like these dudes who said, can't get in, can't get in, can't get in, gotta go up. We'll get you a picture again. Can't get in, can't get in, can't get in, gotta go up.

And you are saying to me, pastor Stephen, what exactly does that mean?

Sit down? I'll tell you.

Somebody say, try higher, because I know there's a way. Because with God there's always a way. By faith, I will find it. What is faith? Faith is when I get my eyes above the waves and put it on the one who can sneak one word to the waves and make them be still. You think God can't bring your kid back, You think God can't fix this thing. If you think God can't turn an industry around, you think God can't raise you up. In a famine, I said.

Try higher, Try higher, try higher. Maybe ought to close a news app in a Bible app every once in a while.

So hire, what does God say? What does his words say? I didn't come here to debate about it. I came here to declare it. God says, I'm going over, not under. God says, I'm the heading off the tail. God said, I'm a puffing, not beneath. He said, I'm sitting.

See that.

Now, high five your neighbor again, because I'm gonna tell you five things. I need some too. Come on, I need some to don't leave me out. Don't leave me out. Don't let me out, don't let me out. I got five you want to write them down? God said, I'm gonna tell you how to try hid Hi.

I'm gonna tell you try higher, now, harder, so you don't just go and go. That was pretty good. And I think he blew out his vocal cords trying to tell me something and all that. I don't know what I think about preacher rapping or nothing like.

That on the thing on the video. And I don't even know if he had much flow or.

Anything like that. I really don't know about that Cardigan. What was that thing you're wearing. I don't know about that, So you don't leave here, just some so stupid stuff. I wrote down five thanks. I thought I had them in my pocket, but they're back there in the pulpit. Let's see if I can remember them. Once said, God said it's gonna take prayer. Now you know why I came over here. They put on my sheet. They said, the online prayer team is coming today. I said, I

The people in the comments section.

Every time I tell somebody, every time I tell somebody, put your thing in the chat and.

We'll pray for you. I know they go, all right, tried to pray?

Did you did you pray about it? Or did you hold on hondah? Did you worry about it and label it prayer? Because those are different. I had to sit down on the side of the bed the other day. I was having shortness of breath about some things that I was worried about, and I put my feet down and I said, they're not moving until I say out loud to my father, who I remember that he is, and begin to get myself into a condition because I don't feel that right now. And I felt blocked. You

It's gonna take prayer for you to try higher. You need God.

You need God in your situation. You need angels in your situation. You need the spirit of God to make it through some of the things we're going through today.

You need prayer. I mean not just pray louder, because that's try harder, pray louder. Oh God, Oh.

God, Oh God, God.

I call on you now for peace.

Peace.

And it's not praying longer because all your people say, well, I try to pray, I'll fall asleep. Did you try it walking? That'll be real hard to do, to fall if you fall asleep prayer walking. Come see me, because you are a modern day Lazarus coming out like a zombie in prayer. But I'm serious. I'm talking about praying larger because number two, it's going to take. There's only five of these. I can get them quick to try

If y'all clap, I can move on to number three.

Or say out or something, Because a lot of times in my life I've been more consumed with what it was costing me than what I was carrying. There was something significant about this man, and it was beyond any of their inkling of understanding what it would be.

They thought, maybe our friend will get a miracle.

They didn't know that he would be a sermon illustration that we'd be preaching about two thousand years later.

Now, is it possible that try and.

Hire is just about you saying God, I know what I think needs to happen, I know where I think is supposed to be.

I know what I think was supposed to be the outcome.

Is it possible that the word of God for you today might be let go of the outcome and surrender to God in the process, Because that's how you try higher, trying harder as just you're going to force it, force it, and sometimes you can even force something through the flesh that you'll be praying for God to take away later.

You hear me, I'm annoying for somebody right now, and I don't know who it is.

I hear God saying, you don't have to pray louder, longer, pray larger, priority, priority. Who are you fighting for? They were fighting for their friend. So if you're not fighting for anybody, give me the hat firs again.

Verse eighteen. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they gave up and went home.

There was something after the comma that they cared about, and it was something they were carrying.

It was somebody.

There has to come a time in your life where you say, I don't even want to do it for me right now, But maybe God wants to do something through me that's bigger than me.

Maybe it's not always about me. That's how you try higher.

And I should come back over here because the third one I wrote down if you're going to try.

Higher is partners. I said, partners. That's y'all's cue to shout. I said, partners.

Put in the chat right now what you need prayer for, and they will pray for you before the next time you see it.

Will you do that?

I don't care how strong you are. One man doesn't get another man up on the roof like that. It's not going to happen without partners trying.

And higher in this season.

Isn't just you going into isolation and gritting your teeth and getting it done alone. That's why I want you in this church as much as you can get here, so we can get around each other, so you can pretend like you know how to sing because the person.

Next to you can. I want that for you. I don't want you to just try harder by.

Yourself and the devil just beats you half to death because you just think you can do it all in isolation and you don't ask anybody, and you don't join anything, and you don't listen to anybody that's.

Not trying higher, that's trying harder.

Some men came carrying a man who is your crew to help you get it done, to carry it with you. You need to find somebody in your life who has figured out something that you are frustrated with and tell them I'm coming up there. I'm coming up there with you. I'm coming up there because you know something. You know something I don't, and I'm not gonna stay down here saying I tried everything when I didn't even ask anybody to help me. I'm not doing this one more day

So I need some new friends. Sorry, I do need some new friends. Every once in a while, co Am, I gonna get down.

Pray for me. I love it.

And the Lord says something very interesting to me. He said, the fourth one is permission. Permission. Permission isn't going to come from the Pharisees. Permission to live the way of Christ is not going to come from the culture. They will always call you crazy. But some of the things that you're praying about right now you could make decisions about before the day is over. When Jesus told this man, take up your mat and walk, if he gave him the command but did not give him the power, it

And the grave.

Come on that sin no longer is your master, that it no longer has dominion for you. How do you know that, Pastor Stephen, Because when the man came in, he was lying on the mat. When he left, he was carrying it, and he didn't need anybody to carry him. If you're ready to get over some stuff that the enemy said you couldn't move past, give God a praise, because that's my fifth p is praise. And God said, if we're gonna do it in this season, like we

Me a praise for who I am, for what I've done, for what I've brought you through.

Everybody that owes God the praise, give it to him right now.

I'm gonna give you thirty seconds. So open your mouth and bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Higher, try higher, give him the greatest phrase you ever gave him.

Why not.

He's high and lifting up and get it right.

And because I gotta tell you this, because they went higher, he got healed, and everybody praised God, and everybody praised God, and everybody praised God, and everybody from the brokest to the richest, from the shortest to the tallest, from the newest to the oldest, and everybody praised God. Because with God there's always a way, and by faith, I'll find it. You're gonna find it. You just hadn't looked high enough yet. There it's there. I see a cloud the size of a man's hand.

You just gotta look off and keep looking out. Father.

I thank you for what I feel in this moment. I don't know who is for, but somebody's going home a different way than they came. I establish that right now by faith, I anticipate the testimony that I'm gonna receive of people who came in lying on a mat and went home praising God, holding what used to hold them. I thank you right now that you're making ways for your children as we praise.

You are making ways.

Worship and worship and worship. Oh O, Jesus said, all authority has been given to me. That means the devil can't hold you. Yeah, open your mouth. Come on, this is the highway when you worship and get your mind on him.

That's the highway. Isaiah said. For his thoughts are higher than your thoughts, and His ways are higher than your ways. On praise makes a highway.

Praise makes a highway for y'all way, Come on listening, highway for y'all wait your waitiness, let's go. We say away.

We say y'all way in the pass when it was pe way, we say allway. Well, we say y'allways at me. Hey.

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