Thank you for listening to this message from
Lifehouse Church. Good morning. Good morning.
Welcome to Lifehouse. It is good to have you
here. Turn to somebody. Give them a high five.
Do it right now. Tell them it's good to see you
in church this morning. Give them a high five.
Yeah, awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
for doing that. Hey, just want to say a little
something. I'm not going to go the whole way
around, but you know what I love? Those boxes
over there are exactly what we celebrate over
here. These green balls are invitation balls.
If you're new with us, if we invite somebody
to the house of God, we put their name on there
or initials and a date on there. And we do that
so we can pray over that invitation because we
want people to come into the kingdom of God.
That is doing the same thing that these are doing
right over here. Those are invitations that go
out. And if you don't know anything about Operation
Christmas Child, when those boxes arrive, they
give the children the boxes, but they share the
message of Jesus Christ simultaneously while
they're doing that. And it's an invitation. Years
ago, we had Layla Allison here. She was a recipient
of one of those shoeboxes when she was a child.
She ended up as a child going through the Bosnian
conflict, the civil war that took place there.
An amazing testimony. And we still hear from
her from time to time. She's in Florida now.
But we hear the stories of what those boxes do.
Same thing. So here's what we're going to do.
We're going to start off praying over these,
and you already prayed over those, all right?
These are our invitations. These are going out
across the globe. If you bow your heads. Father,
we thank you for this day. I thank you for the
opportunity to come in your house, to hear your
word, Lord, to share. And God, we pray over these
invitations this morning. We're believing for
those who don't know you and those who are far
from you that they'll come into the kingdom.
And Lord, God, as the shoeboxes go out and the
invitations go out with these green balls, Lord,
God, Spirit of God, just go ahead. Go forward.
Go before us and minister to hearts and lives
in preparation. We thank you in Jesus' name.
And everybody say it together. Amen. Amen. Well,
it is good to be in God's house. And I'm going
to start off just saying something. I'm going
to make a little bit of an assumption, which
is a terrible idea most of the time, right? But
I'm going to assume this. Many of you probably
are a lot like me in the notion that you don't
believe everything that you read or see online.
Can I assume that this morning? Amen. I got a
witness. Thank you. All right? Right? We don't
believe everything we see or what we read online.
As a matter of fact, a little bit of a conversation
went on this morning about AI, right? Artificial
intelligence. And it's hard to differentiate
when you're looking online what's generated and
what's real. What is fact? What is fiction? What's
authentic? What isn't authentic? I read a little
survey. In 2024, they took a survey. 84 % participants
of people that create content online admitted
to using AI to generate a lot of their material,
right? It's either compiled or made up or a compilation
of different things in the viewing. And now more
than ever, we need to be a people who are aware
and fact -checking things. Amen? It's true. We
need to verify what we're reading. We need to
verify what we're watching. We need to seek out
evidence and proof of authenticity. You need
to listen to testimonials and reviews, test and
validate, do our homework, right? Do all these
things. Seek out signs and evidence of what's
truth and really what isn't. Make sure it's real.
And I got pulled into the whole online thing
a little bit this summer. This summer I was,
I like to do. yard stuff. I like to work out
in the yard, work with my hands. It's fun to
do, and it's very enjoyable. And I was on a mission
to kill the weeds. in my mulch beds, right? Amen,
right? Come on, some of you out there, you yard
warriors are out there. And I saw this thing
online where you mix up your own concoction to
kill weeds, right? It's supposed to not have
all the chemicals in. Anybody read all that online,
right? White vinegar, you mix white vinegar.
Some of you are writing right now. White vinegar.
So I started, I bought a bunch of gallons of
white vinegar. I got a bunch of salt out of the
kitchen. I went and raided the kitchen, my wife's
kitchen. because I don't cook, I raided her kitchen,
took out everything I could salt -wise, right,
and got a little bit of dish soap, and I started
making this concoction that's supposed to kill
weeds. And I can, in fact, verify, right, because
we need to know, we need to test. I can verify
that it does kill the weeds, but it doesn't always
kill the roots, just so you know. All right,
it took multiple applications before I actually
killed the plant off. And you say, well, what's
that got to do with anything? Most of us like
some kind of tangible evidence. of what we're
reading and what we're seeing. None of us want
to play the fool, right? None of us want to be
labeled as gullible or ignorant in any kind of
way. We want verification. We want facts of what's
true. And this even applies to God's word. It
does. It applies to God. It'd be amazing if I
could just read the word of God one time to you.
Just get up here and preach and speak the word
of God one time to you, and your faith would
be eternally fixed. Your faith would be up here.
You'd believe God for anything, and you'd just
keep moving along, right? And all you had to
do is hear it one time, right? Day after day,
you'd have no doubt in your head and in your
heart. I just preached a message and shazam,
you'd all be warriors of faith. Wouldn't that
be awesome, right? But how many know that's not
really the reality of it? It really isn't, right?
It's not. We have moments of great faith sometimes.
We have seasons of great faith. We even walk
in faith. But sometimes, say sometimes, sometimes
we need some tangible evidence to keep our faith
moving and strong. Jesus dying on the cross,
raising from the grave on the third day, right?
Paying the price for our sin, for my sin, for
your sin, you know, going and ascending into
heaven and one day coming back to return to take
us back should be enough. It should be, but it
honestly isn't completely. And Jesus himself
knew this. He knew it would not be completely
true for us just to read the written word of
God and experience nothing else. He knew that.
He knew that it would take the word of God, the
word of God. plus the Holy Spirit. When he left,
he sent back the Holy Spirit to live with inside
of every believer. It would take the word of
God. It would take the presence of God, the Holy
Spirit, and it would be active and alive in our
lives, counseling us. How many know that the
Holy Spirit is the counselor, right? He's the
one who comes. He's the paraclete. He's the advocate
for us. And occasionally, on occasion, you would
need to witness God's work and power in a tangible
way. You really would. If you got your Bibles
this morning, I want you to turn to John chapter
2. We're going into John chapter 2. We were in
John chapter 1 last week. Once in a while, sometimes
you're going to need a sign, you're going to
need a wonder, and you might even need a miracle.
John chapter 2 verse 1, it says this. On the
third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there. Both Jesus
and his disciples were invited to the wedding.
And when they ran out of wine, the mother of
Jesus said to him, they have no wine. Jesus said
to her, woman, what does your concern have to
do with me? My hour has not yet come. His mother
said to his servants, whatever he says to you
to do, do it. Now there were six water pots of
stone, according to the manner of purification
of the Jews, containing 20 to 30 gallons of water.
Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with
water. And they filled them to the brim, up to
the brim, and said to them, and he said to them,
draw some out now, take it to the master of the
feast, and they took it. And when the master
of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine and did not know where it came from, but
the servants who had drawn it, the water knew.
The master of the feast called the bridegroom,
and he said to him, Every man at the beginning
sets out the good wine, and when the guests have
well drunken, then the inferior. You have kept
the good wine until now. This beginning of signs,
say signs. This beginning of signs Jesus did
in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory,
and his disciples believed in him. After this
he went down to Capernaum, he, his mother, his
brothers, and his disciples, and they did not
stay there many days. I want you to get the picture.
I want you to see the scene this morning. Jesus,
his mom, right, his mother, Mary, and his 12
disciples. Now, this is early on in Jesus' public
ministry. This is early on when he gathers the
12 disciples. So it's Jesus, his mom, and the
12 disciples that he has, the 12 apprentices
that he's training. They all get invited to a
wedding, and they go to the wedding. Now, you've
got to understand something about the 12 that
are with him. They've not walked with Jesus very
long at this point. They've seen him teach. They've
seen him preach. They've seen him give invitation.
As a matter of fact, they accepted the invitation
to come and follow him as a rabbi, as a teacher.
But they didn't fully understand who was sitting
in front of them at this wedding. And in their
hearts and lives, they might have believed that
this was the rabbi. A great rabbi to follow.
And they might even had a hint that this was
the prophesied Messiah, that this was the son
of God, that this could be the one. Jesus might
be the one. They were probably sitting there
because they were new with all this, trying to
read the situation, right? I don't know. I can't
ask him. Trying to figure this out, what's really
happening. But they're about to experience a
sign. Turn to somebody right now and say, you
need a sign. You need a sign. Come on. Tell them
you need a sign. We like signs, people, right?
We like to know whether we're supposed to go
left. We like an arrow that goes left. We like
to know if something's pointing right. We like
to know if it's a stop, right? Or go ahead and
proceed with caution or children at play or whatever
it is. We like a sign. We like a sign. And the
wedding is progressing, and they're enjoying
the reception. And all of a sudden, in the middle
of this, Jesus' mom presses in and comes with
some pressing wedding news. She breaks into the
conversation, and she says, Jesus, we've run
out of wine. And I love Jesus' response, right?
At first, he sounds like every guy I know, right?
Not my problem, mom. Because Jesus said to her,
woman, what does your concern have to do with
me? At first glance, it looks like that, right?
But then he throws in something a bit prophetic.
He says, but my hour has not yet come. Jesus
throws in this prophetic phrase. My hour has
not come. What hour? He was referring to him
revealing himself as the Messiah, as the Son
of God. As a remedy for all of mankind's sin.
To conquer death, hell, and the grave. The one
who would have power over all things. And the
one whose word would heal. The one whose word
would control nature itself. That's what he was
saying to her. Woman, my hour's not yet come.
I'm not quite there. But somehow, Jesus' mom,
she knows. How many know mama knows? Come on.
She knows because she intuitively, she doesn't
say another word. She intuitively turns to the
servant. She said, whatever he says to do, do
it. She knows something big is about to go down.
She knows her son. And Jesus tells these servants
to go get six water pots that are sitting there.
I just imagined them in ancient Israel. They
were probably like these big crock water pots,
right? And they hold 20 to 30 gallons, somewhere
between 120 to 180 gallons of water. And he says,
fill them with water. And the servants fill them
with water. And before they can take a sample
of this to the master of the feast, right? The
wedding coordinator for all the rest of us, right?
Before they can do that, Jesus instantly changes
the water into wine. And they take a sip, they
take a cup of this wine to the master of the
feast. And he says, wait a minute, this is all
messed up. Normally they put the good stuff out
first. They've waited till now, right? Till it's
further in the wedding. He goes to the groom
and says this. I can imagine the groom, he was
probably completely confused of what was going
on. But after reading this account, you got to
ask yourself, why? Why would Jesus do his first
public ministry, his miracle, in front of a newly
appointed apprentices at this private wedding?
Why would his first miracle be here? Because
Jesus knew something. He knew that these newly
recruited disciples would need a sign. They would
need something. They would need something that
would help them understand who he actually is,
that he's not just a rabbi, but that he's the
son of God. They needed a day that they would
never, ever, ever, ever forget. They needed a
sign. They needed something from God to know
what they were walking into. They were committing
their lives for the rest of their lives to follow
Jesus. And they personally witnessed it. They
tasted it. They seen it with their own eyes,
and it would never leave them. Once in a while,
sometimes we need a sign, right? We need something
that's not generated, not made up, not secondhand
information, not something you just read on a
page. Once in a while, you're going to need a
sign from heaven. You're going to need something,
right? He knew they're going to need a sign.
They're going to need something to strengthen
their faith. Sometimes we need a sign from God
to build our faith. We really do. Sometimes we
need God's super... power, his supernatural power
at work in our lives. Sometimes it's going to
be God's word. You always need God's word. We've
been talking about this. We're going to continue
to talk about it. You need to be in God's word
every day. You're not really going to understand
the sign when it comes, unless you're in his
word regularly. You're going to need the word
of God. You're going to need the Holy Spirit
at work in your life. And once in a while, say
sometimes, sometimes you're going to need a sign.
Sometimes you're going to need something to solidify
your spirit. Your godly courage is going to need
to rise up. You're going to need someone to remind
you of who he actually is and what he can do.
If you experience a genuine sign from God, a
miracle, a healing, something that's a sign from
heaven, it never leaves you. When I was a kid,
I grew up in church. We were in church all the
time. Not as much as Dixie's family. She was
a pastor's kid. She was in church. She lived
at church. She just had a sleeping bag there
just about. But we were in church a lot. My family
served the Lord and we were in church a lot.
And I remember going to a camp meeting. We had
camp meeting once a year in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
And they had... morning services, they had evening
services, and it wasn't like here. It wasn't
heat controlled, air conditioning. It was an
old open tabernacle. I don't know if you know
what that is, if you've ever been on a campground,
but it was an old open thing. Basically, just
think about a concrete pad, right, some walls
with doors that open, and a stage, and that's
it. No air conditioning, no heat, no anything.
And you would go up there in the summertime and
they would have camp meeting and they had these
old hard, you think these pews are stiff, man?
They had hard wooden pews that were stiff. But
I remember an evangelist coming in and he preached
a message, an amazing message. I don't remember
what it was about, but he had this altar call
and all these people came down to get healing.
And I'm a kid. I'm curious. I'm up front. I just
want to see what it's all about. I didn't really
go up to get healed or prayed for. I just wanted
to see what was going down. So I went up and
I remember standing there and they brought this
lady up and this lady come hobbling up the aisle
and she clearly had a deformed leg. And one leg
was shorter than the other. Now I'm not talking
about a half inch short. I'm not even talking
about two inch short. I'm talking like almost
needed a jacked up platform shoe, steel kind
of thing, short. And they brought her up, they
sat her down, and she had a lot of pain in her
hip because of all this, and they were praying.
And they said, what do you need? So these preachers
start praying for her. They just gather around
her, they anoint her with oil. They begin to
pray for her, right? And they had pulled her
legs up to see how short they were. And I'm talking
short. And they put her legs back down, and they
pray for her, and they pull her legs back up.
And I'm telling you, as true as I'm standing
here, they were the same length. The place erupted.
My jaw hit the ground as a kid. right? And some
of you are like, well, I don't believe it. I
don't care if you believe it or not. I saw it.
You don't have to believe it, right? But it never
left me. It never left me. I saw God move right
then, right there, and perform a miracle. It
never left me. It was amazing. She walked out
of that place just like everybody else did, right?
Jesus knew that sometimes you're going to need
the superpower of God at work in your life. Sometimes
you're going to need a sign. Sometimes it's going
to come in God's word. If you're reading God's
word daily, it's going to pop off the page. I've
had God just give me scriptures and it is a sign
from heaven. Sometimes it's going to be something
out in nature. Sometimes it's going to be something
that's in front of you. Sometimes it's going
to be healing. Turn to somebody right now, tell
them sometimes you just need a sign. Turn to
somebody, tell them you need a sign. It's true.
You're going to need a vision. You're going to
need a healing. You're going to need a miracle.
You're going to need something. You're going
to need a word, right? And I got to remind you
this morning, what's supernatural to us is completely
natural in God's kingdom. Sometimes we get in
all of what God does, and it's just everyday
stuff there, right? In the kingdom of God, it's
a piece of cake. But for us, it's a supernatural.
Stay in his word. Stay in the presence with the
Holy Spirit. And ask God, if you need a sign,
it's okay to ask for a sign, okay? Now, let me
issue a little warning right here. Sometimes
I got to issue a warning when I preach something.
Sometimes you got to have a little balance in
God's word, right? Sometimes we need a sign,
but we don't want to become sign and wonder junkies.
You know what that is? Anybody know somebody
that's a sign and wonder junkie? Right? Sometimes
we need God to speak into our lives, but you
don't want to become a sign and wonder junkie.
We want to chase God. We don't want to chase
the miracles and the signs and the wonders. It's
okay to ask for a sign. It's okay to get God
to give you that sign, but don't become a sign
and wonder junkie. There's a difference in waiting
and asking and God to confirm something in your
life and to give you a sign, and it's quite a
different thing if that's all you're ever chasing
is the signs, right? It's an amazing thing. I
remember as a kid, my dad went through back surgery
and he virtually could barely walk. And they
did the surgery and he was worse than when he
started out. That happens sometimes with back
surgery. He was on the couch. And I remember
my dad getting prayed for and he was healed.
For the next decades, my dad worked manual labor,
never had an issue. But my dad never chased the
sign. He just asked God. right? And people prayed.
We want to chase the one who performs the work,
not the work itself. Does that make sense? Got
to give a little warning there. Jesus said this
actually to his disciples, and this will bring
complete clarity to it because God's word always
brings clarity, right? Jesus said this to his
disciples after he rose from the grave. He stepped
out of the grave, the miracle of miracles, death
to life. And he said this as he was instructing
the disciples in Mark 16, 17. He said, and these
signs, say signs. will follow those who believe.
In my name they will cast out demons, they will
speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents,
and if they drink any deadly thing, it will by
no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the
sick, and they will recover. Jesus said the signs
will follow the believers, not the believers
should follow the signs. Amen? He said the signs
will follow you who believe. He will empower
you. And I don't got time to break down all what
that scripture means. There's a lot of meanings
in there. But he said the signs are going to
follow you. In John 6, 26, Jesus rebukes a crowd
of people for chasing him for the signs. Jesus
was praying. He was preaching. He was healing.
He was healing all kind of diseases. And at one
point, he ends up on a hillside, and he takes
a couple loaves and a couple fish and produces
enough bread, right? He breaks it, blesses it,
and feeds 5 ,000 people. People are not, how
many know that's a sign? Amen? You got a loaf
of bread and a couple fish, and you break it
and feed thousands of people. It was a sign.
And people started chasing after Jesus. They
started following him just because they were
after bread. They were just after a sign. Follow
God. Chase after God. And the sign will come.
The wonders will come. Stay in his word daily.
Follow the Holy Spirit. Chase after him. And
sometimes, say sometimes. Got to drill that into
you. Sometimes the sign that follows me will
be for someone else. The sign that's in my life
will be for someone else. Let me break that down
for you. Sometimes the sign. that takes place
in your life will be for someone else. This is
scriptural. It's threaded all through the New
Testament. It really is. Worship team, if you'd
come. If you'd come. Once Jesus raises from the
dead, comes out of the grave three days later,
he instructs his disciples. He's seen by over
500 witnesses. And he tells his disciples to
do something. He says, I want you to go leave
where you're at now and I want you to go to Jerusalem
and I want you to tarry there and I want you
to wait because I'm gonna send you a promise.
I'm gonna send you a gift. That gift that would
come, 120 listen to him and they go into an upper
room and they weigh and they pray and they seek
God. And Jesus does exactly what he said. He
sends to heaven, he leaves and he sends the Holy
Spirit to them. And when the Holy Spirit shows
up, he does not come quietly. In Acts chapter
two, he steps on the scene and he doesn't just
show up in a little whisper. He comes with great
power. Acts chapter two, verse one says this,
when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they
were with all with one accord in one place. And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a
rushing mighty wind. And it filled the whole
house where they were sitting. Then there appeared
to them divided tongues as of fire. Come on,
this would get your attention, right? This would
be a sign and a wonder. And one sat upon each
one of them, and they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues
as the Spirit gave them utterance. This was the
launch. This was the birth of the church. And
the first thing that took place was there was
a sign. The Holy Spirit showed up. There were
visible signs of what took place. 120 believers
that were in that upper room. They pour out into
the streets of Jerusalem. They begin to share
the gospel of Jesus Christ. And virtually thousands
of people come to faith that day in Jesus. Thousands.
The word of God says it. Peter preaches his first
message and thousands of people and they begin
to follow. Acts 1 .8 says, but when you receive
power, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you
and you shall be my witnesses to me in Jerusalem
and Judea and to the ends of the earth. And there
will be evidence and signs that the Holy Spirit
will do in you that will be for someone else.
Let me show you what that looks like. And probably
many of you have been in church, you've heard
this maybe your whole lives, and we teach it
in Sunday school to the kids, Galatians 5 .22.
But the fruit of the Spirit is what? Love, joy,
peace, long -suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self -control. Against such there
is no law. And those who are in Christ have been
crucified in the flesh and its passions and desires.
And if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit. These are signs and wonders to
people out around you. You may have never seen
them that way. Some of you before Jesus, pre
-Jesus, you were not loving. You did not have
joy. You did not have peace. You did not have
long -suffering, kindness, goodness. You didn't
have these attributes. You come to Christ, and
all of a sudden, God begins to do a work in you.
Jesus begins to change your life. Some people,
when they get saved, you know, and people meet
them like six months later, they're like, what
happened to that person? They were mean as all
get out before. What happened? You get this person
who was so tough and terrible, and Jesus says
it's a sign. It's a fruit of the Spirit. And
the Word of God said it's not the only thing
that you're going to see. Matter of fact, how
many of you have ever met a mean Christian? Anybody
ever meet a Christian? Go ahead, raise your hand.
Just be honest. Yeah, yeah. You know, I wonder
sometimes when I'm meeting a Christian, I'm like,
wait a minute here. So the Holy Spirit comes
when we get saved. He comes to dwell in us. It's
love, joy, peace, long -suffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self -control.
Then there's you. Who exactly and what exactly
are you following, right? Because these should
be the signs that are there. These are what should
be prevalent in our lives. This is what should
come forth. I didn't say perfection. I just said
these are going to be evident. And Jesus didn't
stop there. It didn't stop with the fruit of
the Spirit, but he said, I'm going to give you
the gifts of the Spirit as well. Because 1 Corinthians
12, 4 says there's diversity of gifts. but the
same Spirit. There are differences of ministries,
but the same Lord in the diversities of activities,
but it is the same God who works all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit, right, that's
what you see, is given to each for the profit
of all. It's for somebody else. The gift that's
working in you is for someone else. To some,
he's going to give a word of wisdom. This isn't
just conventional wisdom that you gathered as
you've gotten old, okay, like me. You got decades
under your belt, and it's just conventional.
It's a word of wisdom. It says a word of knowledge
through the same spirit. To another, faith, right?
This is supernatural faith. Gifts of healing,
working in miracles, prophecy, discerning of
spirits. To another, different kinds of tongues,
interpretation of tongues. But one and the same
spirit works all these things. It says this.
In other scriptures, like 1 Corinthians 12, 27,
it says gifts of healing and helps and administration
in tongues. Signs and wonders that follow the
believers. Y 'all get distracted so easy. Signs
and wonders that follow those who believe. Sometimes
you're going to need the sign yourself. There
are times you're going to need God to speak in
your spirit. There are times in your life you're
going to need an answer, and it's got to be a
God answer because you know you don't have the
answer. Anybody you consulted doesn't have the
answer, and you're going to need somebody that's
going to, you need a word from God. You need
something you know straight from the throne room
of grace. And then there's going to be other
times that the person beside you, look at the
person beside you right now, they're going to
need a sign, and God said he'll use you for the
sign. There's going to be times that God will
give you a word for somebody. This happens in
people's lives all the time. Christians are so
shocked, right? They're like, I just felt so
prompted to call somebody, and I needed to call
them, and I felt like I was supposed to share
the Scripture. Yeah, that's a word of wisdom
or a word of knowledge that God's prompting you
to do. Do it. Do it. That's a sign for somebody.
Do you know how many times somebody's walked
up to me? I've been praying about something,
and they walked up to me and said, I don't know
why I'm telling you this, but I've got to tell
you this. God just prompted me to tell you this.
I have to tell you this. And they say it, and
I'm like, boom, right there it is, right? It's
a sign. Sometimes you're going to go pray for
somebody. First time some of you pray for somebody
for healing, and God actually heals them, it's
going to blow your mind. I don't know why it
happens with Christians. We'll go pray for somebody,
for God to heal them. And God doesn't heal all
the time. He's sovereign. He decides and chooses
when he does that. But the first time you go
pray for somebody, it shocks you. I don't know
why, right? Dear Lord, heal them. And then when
God heals them, you're like, I can't believe
it. But it'll change you. You'll never forget
it. First time you pray for somebody and God
heals them, and that miracle takes place, it'll
blow your mind. It'll blow their mind. It'll
blow your mind. Both. You'll just both stand
there and stunned and in awe. of what God did.
Sometimes you're going to need a sign. Sometimes
God's going to use some of you. You're going
to have great faith in a moment and you're going
to pray for somebody and things are going to
shift. You're going to give them the right word,
the right thing. I sat in a room this week with
preachers. Now we all should. Like not be shocked
by anything. Room full of preachers. It was a
denominational gathering I had to go to. I serve
on a board and we're sitting there and a gentleman
that's there, he's an elderly pastor. He's in
his eighties, but he's got energy galore. He's
in his eighties. And he said, you know what?
He looked across the table to a guy who called
him, who normally would never ever call him.
And he said, I can't even tell you what that
word meant to me when you called me and spoke
that encouraging word to me. And the other guy
said, I can't tell you. All I can tell you is
I was going down the road and the Lord spoke
to me and said, you need to call him now. And
he called him. And I watched these two brothers
connect. And as long as we've been doing this,
these two pastors were both kind of shocked still,
even though it happens all the time. Sometimes
you're going to need a sign. I'm going to ask
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