Lawson Perdue - Psalm 37 (Part 2)

June 13, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Psalm 37 (Part 2) | June 13, 2025

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- friend, thanks so much for tuning in
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And being part of the broadcast today.
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I am so glad to be sharing with you.
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I'm teaching today from a live service, psalm 37,
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Where we see that god has good things for those
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Who put their trust and confidence in him.
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Stay tuned, i believe that you're gonna get great truth
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That will help you move into god's blessing and god's favor,
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The good things he has for you.
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Delight yourself also in the lord,
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And he will give you the desires of your heart.
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That answers so many prayers,
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That answers so many questions.
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Delight yourself in the lord.
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And when you study that word delight,
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It's talking about like a love relationship.
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Are you still in love with jesus?
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Take pleasure in your relationship with jesus.
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Stay in love with jesus.
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Then he says this, "commit your way to the lord.
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Commit your way to the lord.
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Trust him also and he will bring it to pass.
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He will bring forth your righteousness
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As a light, your judgment as the noon day."
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Finally, he says this, "trust, delight, commit,
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And rest in the lord."
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We were singing about it. it's already done.
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The work's already finished. it's not my battle.
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I don't have to fight in this battle. isn't that good?
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He says, "the wicked plots against the just
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And gnashes upon him with his teeth,"
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Like wanting to get him.
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The lord will laugh at him
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For he sees that his day is coming.
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The lord's gonna laugh. (laughs)
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The wicked, they may think they have a plan,
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They may think they're gonna get you, right?
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They may have their gun, they may have their plan,
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But it ain't just not gonna work.
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It's not gonna work.
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Hallelujah. hallelujah.
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Why? because god's taken.
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The lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation
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And reserve the unjust to the day.
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You know, psalm 2:4 actually talks about that,
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And it says, "he that sits in the heavens will laugh.
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He will have them in derision."
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I remember the first time that i ever heard that scripture.
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We were in kit carson
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And there were some people wanting to do something
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And some of us in the church didn't like it.
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So we went to the town hall.
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Now the town hall was the same meeting
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That we used when we started the church.
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And they would have a dance on saturday night
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And throw cornmeal on the floor.
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And they had a piano
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And they put thumbtacks in this old upright piano.
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It was honky tonk sounding because it kind of tinny, right?
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And then the glow met there, so they had some speakers.
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So the glow let us use the speaker.
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So we'd go on sunday mornings, we'd put the cornmeal. amen.
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I played the honky tonk piano. hallelujah.
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We had one room in the back
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Where you could hear the kids screaming.
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That was the nursery.
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But i remember we went down
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To the town hall when they were having
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The town hall meeting about this.
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And you know what, they all voted us down,
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And they said "these people can do what they wanna do."
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And it looked like we all lost on our side,
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And we went out the door.
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And one of the ladies from our congregation, she said,
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"this is what i feel like the lord's saying.
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He that sits in the heavens will laugh."
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And you know what?
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It all came about like we wanted it to come about,
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Not because of anything we did,
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But because of something that was another law
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At the state level.
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Hallelujah?
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And it just came about the way we wanted it to be.
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God had it all taken care of.
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And even though it looked like
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We totally lost in that battle, amen,
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He that sits in the heavens will laugh.
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He will have them in derision.
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So he says, "the wicked, they plot against the just,
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And they gnash with the teeth,
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But the lord will laugh at him
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For he sees his day is coming.
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The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bit their bow."
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In other words, they've drawn their bow, right?
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They're ready to get somebody, right?
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He says, "to cast down the poor and needy,
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To slay such as be of upright behavior,
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Conversation, lifestyle.
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Their sword will enter into their own heart
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And their bows will be broken."
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Now when we think about this,
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What's he saying about the wicked?
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They're trying to destroy the just,
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They're trying to destroy the needy.
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They're coming against these people
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That maybe you don't think have any defense,
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But the lord defends them.
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But there's some scriptures that kind of talk about this.
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One of them is in proverbs 26:7.
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It says, "whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
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And whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on them."
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You gotta watch what you're sowing
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Because you might reap it, right?
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Galatians 6:7-9 says, "do not be deceived.
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God has not knocked.
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For whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
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For whoever sows to the flesh
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Will of the flesh reap corruption.
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But the one who sows to the spirit
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Will from the spirit reap eternal life."
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Now i don't want to stop right there
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Because the next verse says this,
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Because most people when they read that
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See it in a negative connotation,
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But it's actually used in this positive connotation
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When you read the context.
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And in verse nine, he says this.
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"and let us not grow weary in well-doing,
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For in due season,
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We shall reap if we do not faint."
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Don't give up, don't faint, stay at it.
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So many people, they quit before their harvest.
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They give up, they faint. don't faint before your harvest.
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So he says, "listen, there's gonna be an end.
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The evil's gonna be judged, the just are gonna be rewarded.
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Consider the end, but the plans of the evil,
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Don't fret about them.
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Don't worry about them because god's gonna take care of us."
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Amen?
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Now the last thing he talks about,
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And i'm gonna talk about several things
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In these last several verses here,
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But he says the harvest will come.
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Notice what he says in verse 16.
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"a little that a righteous man has
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Is better than the riches of many wicked."
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A little that a righteous man has.
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He says, "for the arms of the wicked will be broken,
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But the lord upholds the righteous.
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The arms of the wicked are gonna be broken."
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In other words, they're not gonna be able to finish
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What they start or whatever.
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Then the lord knows the days of the upright
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And their inheritance will be forever.
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Verse 19 says this,
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"they will not be ashamed in the evil time."
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You don't have to be ashamed when there's trouble.
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You don't have to be ashamed when there's problems.
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You don't have to be ashamed when there's difficulties.
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And he says, "in the days of famine,
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They shall be satisfied."
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I'm gonna come back to that in a minute.
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And we're gonna talk about a little bit
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About dealing with famine.
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Guess what? we can know how to deal with famine.
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And one aspect of dealing with famine is
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You can be satisfied, even in the days of famine.
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God told me one time we were going
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Through a really hard time, a really difficult time.
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We had made some investments,
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I had prayed a lot before i made them.
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And it looked like i made all the wrong ones.
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It looked like it was gonna be a complete bust, right?
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It looked really, really bad.
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But i was praying, and god said,
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"if you make it through the famine,
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You'll make it to the feast."
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What a great word.
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And he gave me another word while i was going through that.
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I was praying and seeking him
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Before i got in that situation,
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Praying and asking him what to do.
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I felt like i obeyed him, then it looked like i was wrong.
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So i was praying while we were going through this darkness.
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And he says, "to the upright,
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There rises a light in the darkness."
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I thought, hallelujah.
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I see a light coming through, and it's not another train.
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Hallelujah, amen, to the upright.
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It's like, i could see, it's gonna be all right.
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Now it didn't look all right, it didn't look good.
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It looked very negative. hallelujah.
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I had bought all the, you know,
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I was praying about buying cattle.
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We were in a drought and it was blowing dirt.
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And i was reading in isaiah, or actually in psalm,
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And the scripture said,
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"your cattle will feed in large pastures."
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And the lord woke me up in the middle of the night,
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Told me, "go read your bible for the day."
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Your cattle, i felt like i'm supposed
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To buy all the cattle i can.
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And so i bought all the cattle i could.
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It was like in february, march.
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And it just kept blowing dirt and blowing dirt.
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And the cattle price kept going down
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And the corn price kept going up and it looked terrible.
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And my baptist banker,
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I went over my $100,000 loan by two or $300.
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And my methodist banker, he got,
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From wiley, colorado where i grew up, he got mad at me.
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I said, "hey, can i just mail you a check?"
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He said, "no, you gotta,"
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So i make this little pastor salary
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Like a thousand dollars a month or something.
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So i carried him two or $300 down there.
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And i thought, when my loan comes up,
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I am getting a new banker
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Because i'm not gonna put up with this nonsense.
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So i was there.
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Not only that, my granddad had died,
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And i was taken out of the will,
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And my cousin got all the stuff.
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So at the same time that i went down there
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To take him his two or $300 out of my little salary,
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Because i went over this loan,
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He was talking to me about getting my cousin.
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Could he get my cousin's loan,
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Because my cousin got all my stuff in the will
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And i got kicked out of the will.
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So not only did we get kicked out of the will,
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We lost about $40,000 of equity in the cattle business.
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And it looked really, really bad.
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I mean, our equity was like zero.
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But i prayed before i got in that mess
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And obeyed what god told me to do.
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Amen?
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And so it was coming time for my note,
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And he was talking about calling my note.
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You talk about ugly.
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And so i went down to the baptist banker
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That was in our town,
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And i sat across the desk from him and i said,
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"listen, i need to borrow $100,000
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And i got $100,000 of cattle."
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He said, "i'll loan it to you."
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Generally you need 30% equity.
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He loaned me $100,000 with zero equity.
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And i told him at the same time, i said,
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"i need $100,000."
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I told him this.
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I said, "listen, i believe," i said,
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"it's gonna rain,
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And i believe the corn price is gonna go down,
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And i believe the cattle price is gonna go up,
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And i believe that i'm gonna make more money
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Than i ever made in my life."
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I looked right in the face of that storm,
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I looked right in the face when it looked terrible.
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And i told that, i prophesied to that banker about
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What i believe was gonna happen.
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He said, "i think so too."
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And he loaned me $100,000
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For $100,000 of cattle.
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And i went down to the methodist banker where i grew up
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And i said, "listen, i'm just here to pay you."
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He said, "can i do something for you?"
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I said, "i'm here to pay you off."
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And i just wrote him a check.
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And he looked a little bit funny,
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But don't talk to me about calling my note.
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Right? hallelujah.
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And so march 27th or 8th,
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It started raining,
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Or may, may 27th or 28th, it started raining.
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This was about the 1st of april when i went down
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And paid this other banker off.
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It started raining and it rained all summer.
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The desert blossomed like a rose,
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And the cattle price went up, and the corn price went down.
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And by the time i was done, i had $80,000 that i made.
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I doubled my money, praise god.
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It was just a little darkness.
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But the lord said, "if you make it through the famine,
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You'll make it through the feast."
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Praise god, i had to see through the darkness, right?
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I had to see, god told me, right?
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I prayed, i asked him what to do. he told me what to do.
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I did what he said, and it still looked wrong.
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But see, the end was good.
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Sometimes you don't know the end from the beginning,
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But god knows the end from the beginning.
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Hi friends, thanks so much for being part
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Of the broadcast today.
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We've got lots of stuff to be a blessing to you.
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You gotta learn how to deal with famine.
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If you make it through the famine,
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You're gonna make it to the feast.
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Now the first scripture that talks about famine,
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Or the first one that we need to understand
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Is just in a couple chapters earlier
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Right here in psalm 33 in verse, we'll read verse 18 and 19.
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It says, "behold the eye of the lord is upon those
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Who fear him and that hope in his mercy
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To deliver their soul from death
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And keep them alive in the famine."
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The first thing you gotta learn how to do
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Is stay alive in the famine.
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Some people don't know how to stay alive in the famine.
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You know what, you gotta learn how to stay alive.
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You gotta learn how to keep trusting, keep believing, amen?
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Don't quit in the famine.
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You gotta learn how to stay alive in the famine,
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To keep them alive in the famine.
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Now, the person that reminds me
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Of staying alive in the famine is elijah.
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And elijah went and gave a prophecy to ahab
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And he told ahab, "listen, ahab," in 1 kings 17,
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"it's not gonna rain until i say so."
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After he went and gave ahab, this wicked king, the word,
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The word of the lord came to elijah in 1 kings 17:2
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And said, "get from here and turn east
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And go hide yourself by the brook cherith
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That is before jordan.
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And it shall be that you will drink of the brook
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For i have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
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Did you know what?
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If god has to,
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He will command the ravens to come and feed me.
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Now can you see this?
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Elijah goes and he hides by the brook cherith,
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And here come the ravens in the morning bringing bread.
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Here comes bringing flesh. (laughs)
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Here's your bread and here's your meat.
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And then they come back in the evening.
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Here they come again, here come the ravens.
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He said, "i have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
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So he went and did, according to the word of the lord,
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For he went and dwelt by the brook cherith
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That is before jordan.
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And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning
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And bread and flesh in the evening.
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And he drank of the brook.
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And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up
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Because there had been no rain in the land.
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And the word of the lord came to him again and said,
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"arise, go to zarephath, which belongs to sidon,
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And dwell there.
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Behold, i have commanded a widow woman
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There to sustain you."
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You know, god will use unusual people.
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He said, "i have commanded a widow woman to sustain you."
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So he went to zarephath.
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And when he came to the gate of the city,
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Behold, the widow woman was there gathering sticks.
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And he called to her and said, "fetch me, i pray you,
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A little water and a vessel that i may drink."
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And as she was going to fetch it,
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He called to her and said,
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"bring me, i pray you, a morsel of bread."
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Just bring me a little bread in your hand.
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And she said, "as the lord god lives, i don't have a cake,
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But a handful of meal in a barrel
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And a little oil in a jar.
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And i'm gonna gather two sticks
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That i may go and dress it for me and my son
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That we may eat it and die."
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Sometimes god uses the most unusual people
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And unusual situations.
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And it doesn't look like she's, you know, his answer.
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Really, god's his answer.
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But he said, "listen, i've commanded her to feed you."
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And elijah said, "fear not, go and do."
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Can you imagine his boldness?
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"as you have said,
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But make me a little cake first and bring it to me.
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And after that, for you and your son,
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For thus says the lord god of israel,
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The barrel of meal will not waste,
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Neither shall the jar of oil fail
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Until the day the lord sends rain on the earth."
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Verse 15 says, "and she went and did
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According to the saying of elijah,
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And she and he and her house did eat it many days.
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And the barrel of meal did not waste,
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Neither did the jar of oil fail
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According to the word of the lord,
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Which he spoke by elijah."
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Now, this is actually an operation
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Of the gift of faith.
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And the gift of faith works,
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Many times in the areas of provision,
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And also in the area of protection.
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And it's actually a progression,
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Because when the ravens came, he could see them, right?
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Here they come in the morning bringing bread,
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Bringing flesh.
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Here they come in the evening, here comes the food,
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Here comes dinner, bringing bread, bringing flesh, right?
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Then when he goes to the widow at zarephath, she said,
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"i don't have anything but a little barrel of meal,"
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Little meal in a barrel,
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And a little jar of oil, little oil.
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They had to go every day.
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But you know what, when they went every day,
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There was enough meal in that barrel for that day.
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And there was enough, they couldn't see it,
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But they went there and when they opened it up,
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There's enough oil in that jar for that day.
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And every day they went.
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And this went on for days and months.
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And every day when they opened that up,
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There's the meal, there's the oil.
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That's the progression, right?
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Now after this, elijah goes and tells ahab
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The word of the lord, and they have a standoff, right?
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And elijah just kills these prophets of baal,
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450 of them with a sword.
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I mean, it's ugly, right?
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And after he does that, jezebel says,
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"listen, i'm gonna come and kill elijah."
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And elijah's like, he falls asleep by tree
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When he wakes up in angels there
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And an angel prepared him a cake.
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This is the first angel food cake.
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(audience laughing)
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And he eats this cake
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And he outruns jezebel's chariot.
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He ran in the strength of that cake
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For 40 days in 40 nights.
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That is the progression of the gift of faith.
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You know, some people don't have any faith,
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Even if the ravens, they could see them bringing it,
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They don't have no faith.
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They're never gonna get to the barrel in the jar.
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But you gotta get where you could see it at this level
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Before you can see at that level.
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And then you gotta get at this level
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Before you can operate at another level.
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Some person came to andrew wommack years ago
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And they said, "i wanna believe god
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And do this million dollar project."
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And he said, "well they never believed god
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For a $2 pair of socks."
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And he said,
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"if you haven't believed god for a $2 pair of socks,
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How you gonna believe god for this million dollar project?"
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Hallelujah.
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You gotta start using your faith wherever you're at.
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But this is like the progression of the gift of faith.
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So the first thing is, elijah,
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In dealing with famine is you've gotta learn
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How to stay alive in the famine.
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And did you know what?
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When you have faith in god, god said,
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"i'll command the ravens and they'll feed you,
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And i have commanded a widow."
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He will use the most unusual people and unusual things.
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Hallelujah.
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But i'm gonna take care of you. hallelujah.
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Isn't that good news?
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Stay alive in the famine.
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But the second one is,
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We gotta learn how to be satisfied in the famine.
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Psalm 37:18 says, "in the day of famine,
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They will be satisfied."
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Not only do you gotta stay alive,
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You gotta learn how to be satisfied.
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How can we be satisfied?
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Well i was thinking about isaac,
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And we just talked about isaac,
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But in genesis 26,
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Isaac has went to a foreign land, right?
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Because there's a famine.
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And god tells him, let's go over here
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And just read genesis 26, just the beginning,
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We'll look at the first four verses,
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And then verse 12 to verse 14.
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It says this, genesis 26:1-4,
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"there was a famine in the land
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Besides the first famine that was in the days of abraham.
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And isaac went to amalek,
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The king of the philistines to gerar.
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And the lord appeared to him and said,
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'do not go down to egypt,
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Dwell in the land that i tell you of.
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Stay in this land and i will be with you
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And bless you, for unto you and your seed,
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I will give all these countries and perform the covenant
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Or the word which i swore to abraham, your father.
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And i will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven
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And give unto your seed all these countries.
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And in thy seed,
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All the nations of the earth shall be blessed.'"
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So he renews this covenant with isaac
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That he made with abraham,
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But he was thinking about going to egypt.
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And the lord said, "no, stay where you're at."
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So it says in verse 12, "then isaac sowed in that land."
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Barbara was just reading those verses, right?
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From ecclesiastes 11.
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"cast your bread on the water
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And you'll find it after many days."
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That's actually talking about sowing seed, right?
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And you sow your seed on the water
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Where the holy ghost is moving.
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You don't wanna sow your seed in dead ministries, right?
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You're gonna find it.
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And then it says, "give a portion to seven or eight
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Because you don't know what evil you sow."
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Blessed are those who sow beside all waters, right?
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And send forth, isaiah says that,
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The labor, the feet of the oxen, so on and so forth.
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But he says keep sowing, right?
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And keep reaping because you just keep at it.
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You never quit, right?
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Stay consistent in giving, stay consistent in sowing,
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Stay consistent in reaping.
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Because you don't know what evil's gonna be on the earth.
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And so he says if you observe the clouds,
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You're not gonna reap because you think a storm's coming.
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And if you observe the wind,
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You think it's gonna be a drought, right?
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So you're not gonna sow.
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But you can't observe the wind,
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You can't observe the clouds.
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You just keep sowing and you keep going
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And you're gonna reap some harvest.
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That's what he's talking about, right?
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There's some great investment wisdom in those verses
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Barbara was reading from ecclesiastes 11.
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But anyway, so isaac,
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The lord said, "you stay in this land."
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So isaac sowed in that land and he got a harvest,
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He received in the same year a hundred fold.
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And the lord blessed him.
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And the man in verse 13 waxed great and went forward
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And grew until he became very great.
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The new king james says this,
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He began to prosper,
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And he continued to prosper until he became very prosperous.
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Hallelujah.
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And then it says this in verse 14, "for he had possession."
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I believe god wants the church to be in possession.
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There's all these people that are always trying to sell fear
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And keep you from going out
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And doing things, right?
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But don't buy it. i haven't bought it, right?
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He had possession of flocks and possession of herds,
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And he had a great store of servants,
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And the philistines envied him.
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(upbeat music)
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Friend, i'm so glad
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Lawson Perdue - Psalm 37 (Part 2)

June 13, 2025 | 29:55

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