WEBVTT 00:00:01.419 --> 00:00:04.440 sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.940 --> 00:00:09.800 Elation Church. Welcome to week number seven 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:13.460 in our series we've entitled, Hello, My Name 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:16.440 is God. And we've been looking at the names of 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:19.079 God and their significance and importance to 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.120 us, okay? Are you excited? I'm excited. If you've 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.100 been here and the Word has blessed you and God's 00:00:25.100 --> 00:00:27.160 name has blessed you, raise your hand. It's been 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.550 really good. I've gotten so much out of it. I 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:31.690 know it's so impacting when we get a hold of 00:00:31.690 --> 00:00:35.149 who God is and how he can transform our lives, 00:00:35.229 --> 00:00:38.549 right? It's so good. So let's talk about a name 00:00:38.549 --> 00:00:40.649 real quick, try to catch everyone up. Like I 00:00:40.649 --> 00:00:43.070 said, this is week seven. If you haven't been 00:00:43.070 --> 00:00:45.549 here with us and would like to catch up, I just 00:00:45.549 --> 00:00:47.609 want to remind you, you can be like YouTube, 00:00:47.750 --> 00:00:50.250 you can go on podcasts, Apple podcasts, anywhere 00:00:50.250 --> 00:00:53.789 you stream it, Spotify, whatever, all of the 00:00:53.789 --> 00:00:55.869 different ones. You can go back and just listen 00:00:55.869 --> 00:00:59.130 to an edited version of the sermon to catch up. 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.780 and be a part of what's going on here in that 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:05.299 word. So what's in a name? Names signify identity. 00:01:05.659 --> 00:01:08.299 Everybody say identity. You can be a little bit 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:11.040 louder than that. Say identity. I'm going to 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.840 have you talking to me today. I want you focusing. 00:01:12.939 --> 00:01:16.099 So identity. Now my full name, a lot of people 00:01:16.099 --> 00:01:18.700 don't know this, but my full name is Jeffrey 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:22.900 Nathaniel Forrest. Now, you know, most people 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:25.200 just call me Jeffrey, but if I ever heard these 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.909 three names, it meant something. It meant something. 00:01:29.030 --> 00:01:31.430 It wasn't just like, oh, Jeffrey, you know, that's 00:01:31.430 --> 00:01:33.450 on your birth certificate, but if I hear someone 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:37.450 call me three names, I'm running. You know what 00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:39.709 I'm saying? All right. Yeah, I was always in 00:01:39.709 --> 00:01:42.609 trouble if I got all three names. Jeffrey Nathaniel 00:01:42.609 --> 00:01:46.170 Forrest, what's going on? But yeah, everyone 00:01:46.170 --> 00:01:48.230 calls me Jeffrey. If you notice, it's spelled 00:01:48.230 --> 00:01:50.390 a little different. Some people call me Joffrey. 00:01:50.549 --> 00:01:53.140 Some people like to call me Jeff. Don't call 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:55.659 me that. I just go by Jeffrey, okay? Jeffrey's 00:01:55.659 --> 00:01:58.599 my name, and that's what I go by. Another identity 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.400 name is Christian. It's not just something that 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.500 I do. It's not just something that I practice. 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:07.060 It's my identity. It's my self -identity of what 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:10.319 God has done for me, and that's who I am, okay? 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:13.560 Everybody say amen. Christian is my identity, 00:02:13.699 --> 00:02:16.219 not just something that I do and practice. It's 00:02:16.219 --> 00:02:20.439 who I am, okay? Names also signify, so they signify 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.789 identity. Everybody say identity. Then say relationship. 00:02:24.990 --> 00:02:29.389 Names signify relationship. I'm a cousin. I'm 00:02:29.389 --> 00:02:33.110 a nephew. I'm a son. This is my dad. My mother 00:02:33.110 --> 00:02:35.129 was singing up here earlier. She's helping out 00:02:35.129 --> 00:02:39.009 with the kids. But my mom, she never called me 00:02:39.009 --> 00:02:43.430 just son. I was always her favorite son. Now, 00:02:43.430 --> 00:02:47.830 being the only child, that was kind of weird, 00:02:47.930 --> 00:02:51.229 right? But I'd still take it as a compliment. 00:02:51.550 --> 00:02:53.909 Right? You're like, you're my favorite son. And 00:02:53.909 --> 00:02:56.830 I'm like, yeah, I'm the favorite. All right. 00:02:57.110 --> 00:02:59.310 I'm also a husband. My beautiful wife, Caitlin, 00:02:59.469 --> 00:03:01.750 she's usually keeping the kids. She's over here, 00:03:01.789 --> 00:03:03.870 so I'm a husband. But she don't call me husband. 00:03:04.469 --> 00:03:07.650 She calls me usually Jeffrey, just by my name. 00:03:07.750 --> 00:03:09.490 We don't really do the whole pet name. Sometimes 00:03:09.490 --> 00:03:12.250 she calls me honey, though. Sometimes, you know, 00:03:12.250 --> 00:03:14.930 she says, oh, honey, can you do this? She don't 00:03:14.930 --> 00:03:16.469 call me, you know, husband. That would be kind 00:03:16.469 --> 00:03:19.699 of weird. But like, oh, husband, would you? you 00:03:19.699 --> 00:03:21.620 know, change the air filter today or something 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:23.340 like, you know, she wouldn't say that. Sometimes 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:27.139 she would say, honey. We test drove, she test 00:03:27.139 --> 00:03:30.280 drove one time Pookie. And that, thankfully, 00:03:30.379 --> 00:03:34.740 that one didn't stick. Thankfully, I was like, 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.759 no, we're not doing that. I just kind of looked 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.419 at her and I was like, no, we're not doing that. 00:03:39.780 --> 00:03:43.080 So names signify identity, names signify relationship, 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:46.419 and also names signify activity. Everybody say 00:03:46.419 --> 00:03:49.659 activity. Activity, what a person does. Sometimes 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:53.340 you're known by a name. Like I've been a student 00:03:53.340 --> 00:03:57.419 part of my life. I've been a musician. I started 00:03:57.419 --> 00:04:00.000 playing bongos when I was like seven years old. 00:04:00.139 --> 00:04:03.280 And then I moved to like a djembe and then drums 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:05.599 and then acoustic guitar. And I just started 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.120 playing anything, guitar, bass, or whatever, 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:09.699 anything that would go along with that. So I'm 00:04:09.699 --> 00:04:12.659 a musician. I was a recording artist. I traveled 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:15.000 around. Even apart from my family, people would 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.990 book me in. I wrote songs and sang. Traveled 00:04:17.990 --> 00:04:19.990 around, people would have me in, and I would 00:04:19.990 --> 00:04:22.790 sing the music that God gave me to sing. And 00:04:22.790 --> 00:04:26.389 so I was a part of who I was for a while. I was 00:04:26.389 --> 00:04:29.550 a sound man. I ran sound. Got paid to run sound 00:04:29.550 --> 00:04:32.170 and things. Got paid to be a sound engineer sitting 00:04:32.170 --> 00:04:34.689 in studios and help produce records, things like 00:04:34.689 --> 00:04:38.610 that. Worship leader. And then when we spent 00:04:38.610 --> 00:04:41.689 time in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, we were 00:04:41.689 --> 00:04:45.560 associated with a resort there. I was taking 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.939 pictures with my, just my iPhone for like the 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:51.000 longest time. And all of a sudden the owner one 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.720 day reached out to me and they said, hey, would 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.500 you mind running like social media? We just want 00:04:55.500 --> 00:04:58.060 pictures for our account, things like that. So 00:04:58.060 --> 00:05:01.100 I started doing that. And then it went from just 00:05:01.100 --> 00:05:04.500 posting to that to all of a sudden, okay. We'll 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:07.160 get you a camera. So I got a camera. And then 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.459 we're shooting website photos and pictures to 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:12.800 hang around the resort. Then a picture is in 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.180 magazines. And then all of a sudden billboards 00:05:15.180 --> 00:05:18.120 start popping up. So that was really cool. So 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.959 my professional photographer career, it was short 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.699 -lived, about three or four years. I finally 00:05:23.699 --> 00:05:25.800 made some, like, family portrait money on the 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.779 side. You know, once you get everybody, let's 00:05:27.779 --> 00:05:30.579 wear white and khaki and go stand out on the 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:33.319 dune and take a picture. If you know, you know, 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:37.930 okay? I was also, something interesting about 00:05:37.930 --> 00:05:41.089 me, I was a senior citizen's aerobics instructor. 00:05:42.189 --> 00:05:45.050 I kid you not. Yeah, a lot of people don't know 00:05:45.050 --> 00:05:48.170 this about me. It's a good time. So what is it? 00:05:48.509 --> 00:05:54.410 It was good money. I about said something I shouldn't. 00:05:54.410 --> 00:05:57.870 Anyways. It was good money at the time, and we 00:05:57.870 --> 00:05:59.910 did like circuit training. It was a part of like 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:02.350 a Weight Watchers program, and you would do like 00:06:02.350 --> 00:06:04.810 a minute at each station, and I kind of facilitated 00:06:04.810 --> 00:06:09.810 that class. Also, I was a DJ for a short period 00:06:09.810 --> 00:06:12.730 of time. I'd set up sound on the beach. I'd play 00:06:12.730 --> 00:06:16.029 top 40 hits and all the fun dance music that 00:06:16.029 --> 00:06:18.889 you hear at weddings. We'd have 200 or 300 people 00:06:18.889 --> 00:06:22.029 out there dancing every Saturday night. It was 00:06:22.029 --> 00:06:25.550 good money. I was, when we moved here, I was 00:06:25.550 --> 00:06:29.129 a custodian for Disney, coordinator and trainer 00:06:29.129 --> 00:06:32.990 for a while. And then I've been an evangelist, 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:35.689 been a chaplain at that same resort, preacher, 00:06:35.790 --> 00:06:37.930 and now the associate pastor here at Alation 00:06:37.930 --> 00:06:41.110 Church. Everybody go, glad that's over. That 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:44.949 was a lot. Enough about me, though. It's 16 names 00:06:44.949 --> 00:06:48.649 I just gave you. 16 names, but I'm just one person. 00:06:48.689 --> 00:06:51.139 Everybody say one person. And one thing that 00:06:51.139 --> 00:06:52.939 I just want to be clear about, like when we're 00:06:52.939 --> 00:06:55.420 talking about the names of God, there's only 00:06:55.420 --> 00:06:58.019 one God. When we hear these different names, 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.279 they're not talking about different gods or lesser. 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.300 No, we're just talking about one God. Everybody 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:06.560 say one God. One God. And what's in a name? Again, 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.620 because this wasn't about me, this is about who 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:14.279 God is and God's name. So in a name is identity, 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:18.100 it's relationship, it's activity, what a person 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:22.870 does. Come to God when we learn these names as 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:25.029 a church, as we're learning these names, let's 00:07:25.029 --> 00:07:27.949 keep these things in mind, that this is who he 00:07:27.949 --> 00:07:31.230 is. This name reveals his identity. It reveals 00:07:31.230 --> 00:07:34.470 the relationship that he wants to have with each 00:07:34.470 --> 00:07:37.850 one of us. And then his activity, the things 00:07:37.850 --> 00:07:40.589 that he wants to do in our lives, through our 00:07:40.589 --> 00:07:44.730 lives, in our world around us. Okay? Our main 00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:49.420 text is Psalms 910. It says this. And those who 00:07:49.420 --> 00:07:53.199 know your name will put their trust in you. For 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.920 you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.939 So when we seek God by his name, right, we can 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:06.079 put our trust in who he is, in that relationship 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.420 that he wants to have with us, in that activity. 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.439 We can trust that he will do those things in 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.740 our lives. And he will not forsake us when we 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:18.430 seek him according to who he is. He won't turn 00:08:18.430 --> 00:08:21.230 his back on us is what that word means. He'll 00:08:21.230 --> 00:08:23.310 never leave you. He'll never forsake you. Ain't 00:08:23.310 --> 00:08:25.769 that such a blessing? Isn't that such a promise? 00:08:26.129 --> 00:08:28.149 And as we've been looking at each one of these 00:08:28.149 --> 00:08:33.230 names of God, there's a promise connected to 00:08:33.230 --> 00:08:37.669 his person. There's a promise connected to his 00:08:37.669 --> 00:08:40.450 identity. There's a promise connected here that 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:46.309 we can take a hold of by faith. Amen? Amen. The 00:08:46.309 --> 00:08:49.750 name of God we're looking at is El Shaddai. El 00:08:49.750 --> 00:08:52.990 Shaddai. This has just been like stirring in 00:08:52.990 --> 00:08:54.730 my heart. I'm really jacked up and excited about 00:08:54.730 --> 00:08:56.289 it. Might have had a little too much coffee too, 00:08:56.389 --> 00:08:58.809 but we're going for it. El Shaddai. Everybody 00:08:58.809 --> 00:09:02.549 say El Shaddai. Now in the first week, we've 00:09:02.549 --> 00:09:06.669 looked at Elohim and Yahweh. This is another 00:09:06.669 --> 00:09:09.909 compound word, Hebrew word here. So the first 00:09:09.909 --> 00:09:15.460 El, short for Elohim, means great, mighty. Supreme 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:22.519 God, okay? And then Shaddai is usually translated 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:24.919 in your English Bible as Almighty. As you're 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:26.980 going through, it's translated as Almighty God, 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.980 okay? It's derived from that word. It's actually 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:34.240 two different words put together. It's derived 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.460 from the word breast, Shadd, and it implies something 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:42.460 physical nourishment, satisfaction, and supply. 00:09:43.850 --> 00:09:46.070 I want to say that again, because I think we 00:09:46.070 --> 00:09:48.730 need to take a hold of this. It implies physical 00:09:48.730 --> 00:09:54.730 nourishment, so the physical, satisfaction, the 00:09:54.730 --> 00:09:58.909 emotional, and the supply, the material, okay? 00:10:00.289 --> 00:10:05.450 So listen, die, so shad means breast, die meant 00:10:05.450 --> 00:10:10.909 enough in the language, in Hebrew. So when we 00:10:10.909 --> 00:10:14.139 put these... Names together, it means the one 00:10:14.139 --> 00:10:18.899 who is mighty to completely nourish, completely 00:10:18.899 --> 00:10:23.759 satisfy, and completely supply. That's who God 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.879 is. If you're having trouble taking a hold of 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:29.759 this, this is just the direct translation of 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.879 what this name means, okay? So it's going to 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.320 be a long morning. You've got to bear with me. 00:10:35.340 --> 00:10:38.159 Come on. El Shaddai means the one who is mighty. 00:10:38.340 --> 00:10:40.970 Everybody say, God is mighty. God is mighty to 00:10:40.970 --> 00:10:44.330 completely nourish me. Say this again. Don't 00:10:44.330 --> 00:10:46.590 worry about the phone. God is mighty. Come on, 00:10:46.610 --> 00:10:51.289 say it with me. God is mighty to completely nourish, 00:10:51.330 --> 00:10:58.269 satisfy, and supply me. Do we believe that? That's 00:10:58.269 --> 00:11:02.570 who he says he is. That's who the word says he 00:11:02.570 --> 00:11:06.490 is. El Shaddai means, and a lot of you may have 00:11:06.490 --> 00:11:09.240 heard this, it also means... God is, and it gives 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.120 us this picture in the Septuagint of being all 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:16.820 -sufficient. And this kind of sticks out to me 00:11:16.820 --> 00:11:19.080 a little bit because he's not just sufficient 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.659 to meet these things. It's not just sufficient. 00:11:22.740 --> 00:11:28.059 It's not just enough. He's more than enough. 00:11:28.220 --> 00:11:32.580 He's all -sufficient, all -encompassing, sufficiency, 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:38.870 supply, nourishment. Come on. That's good. That's 00:11:38.870 --> 00:11:43.029 who God is. That's who God is. He is more than 00:11:43.029 --> 00:11:47.870 enough. That's the God that we serve. To get 00:11:47.870 --> 00:11:51.289 this image, how many of you like buffets? Have 00:11:51.289 --> 00:11:53.350 you liked buffets? Yeah, we like some buffets. 00:11:53.429 --> 00:11:56.769 There's a buffet in Plant City, Florida. I encourage 00:11:56.769 --> 00:11:58.850 you to go there. This is a shameless plug for 00:11:58.850 --> 00:12:01.710 them. It's called Fred's Market. And if you go, 00:12:01.789 --> 00:12:03.710 it's like country cooking. You know, I'm from 00:12:03.710 --> 00:12:06.090 the Carolinas, and sometimes it's hard to get 00:12:06.090 --> 00:12:09.899 country cooking. In Florida, for some reason, 00:12:10.019 --> 00:12:12.120 even though we're farther south, we have less 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:16.299 country cooking. So anyways, I found this place. 00:12:16.379 --> 00:12:18.659 And if you go down there, it doesn't matter how 00:12:18.659 --> 00:12:21.159 hungry I am. It doesn't matter how much, you 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.700 know, how much I want to eat. I walk in the door. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.039 I eat everything that I wanted. I get completely 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.100 full. And then I eat a little bit more than I 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:36.309 intended to eat. And then there's still. There's 00:12:36.309 --> 00:12:39.450 still more, so I've got to go back and eat that 00:12:39.450 --> 00:12:41.570 dessert that I missed out on because I was still 00:12:41.570 --> 00:12:44.950 full. And then still, there's more than enough. 00:12:45.789 --> 00:12:49.429 I can't eat it all. There's just more. A thousand 00:12:49.429 --> 00:12:50.950 people will walk through that door, and there's 00:12:50.950 --> 00:12:53.470 just more. There's just always food. I don't 00:12:53.470 --> 00:12:55.230 know if it ever shuts down. There's just food 00:12:55.230 --> 00:12:57.830 there. I imagined it in my sleep, like in my 00:12:57.830 --> 00:13:00.929 dreams. It's just 24 hours a day, this endless 00:13:00.929 --> 00:13:05.690 country cooking buffet. More than enough. Okay, 00:13:05.750 --> 00:13:08.129 come on, come on. It's okay to laugh in church. 00:13:08.850 --> 00:13:12.850 It's okay. It's kind of like a power line. The 00:13:12.850 --> 00:13:16.210 power line up and down 27, it has the power within 00:13:16.210 --> 00:13:20.110 it, listen, has the power within it to supply 00:13:20.110 --> 00:13:23.409 the needs of my house so that when I plug in 00:13:23.409 --> 00:13:26.009 my vacuum cleaner, I don't go, I wonder if it's 00:13:26.009 --> 00:13:28.350 going to work today. I wonder if I have enough 00:13:28.350 --> 00:13:31.490 power today, right? I plug it in, and so it supplies 00:13:31.490 --> 00:13:34.210 the power to my house and everything that it 00:13:34.210 --> 00:13:38.710 needs. But then it also has more within it than 00:13:38.710 --> 00:13:41.649 I could possibly ever draw from it. More than 00:13:41.649 --> 00:13:45.970 I would ever need. It's available to me. And 00:13:45.970 --> 00:13:47.830 that's who God is. He's trying to give us this 00:13:47.830 --> 00:13:51.889 picture of I am more than enough. I am all sufficient. 00:13:52.090 --> 00:13:58.289 I am mighty. It reminds me of a few verses. We 00:13:58.289 --> 00:14:00.090 have a lot of scripture coming at you today. 00:14:00.190 --> 00:14:02.850 So sit up on the edge of your seat. Listen, Philippians 00:14:02.850 --> 00:14:06.309 4 .19 says this, And this same God who takes 00:14:06.309 --> 00:14:10.129 care of me will supply all your needs from his 00:14:10.129 --> 00:14:13.529 glorious riches which have been given to us in 00:14:13.529 --> 00:14:16.429 Christ Jesus. I want you to see that his riches 00:14:16.429 --> 00:14:24.090 far exceed your need. Who he is far exceeds anything 00:14:24.090 --> 00:14:28.389 that you need in your person. And this is a promise 00:14:28.389 --> 00:14:34.460 connected to his person of who he is. Amen? His 00:14:34.460 --> 00:14:39.820 supply is way more than my need, than my want. 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.740 Ephesians 3 .20, I love this. Now to him who 00:14:44.740 --> 00:14:49.279 is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above. 00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:55.019 I just want to stop there. Not just sufficient. 00:14:57.340 --> 00:15:04.169 Not just enough. exceedingly, abundantly, above 00:15:04.169 --> 00:15:12.809 all I can ask or think. I can think about a lot. 00:15:13.370 --> 00:15:16.909 I can ask for a lot. And it's interesting to 00:15:16.909 --> 00:15:20.230 think about this in the context of prayer and 00:15:20.230 --> 00:15:28.590 God knowing in his omniscience, him knowing what 00:15:28.590 --> 00:15:33.970 I pray before I ask it. And he's able to supply 00:15:33.970 --> 00:15:37.009 that need because everything that you need is 00:15:37.009 --> 00:15:40.269 already found in him. It's already available 00:15:40.269 --> 00:15:45.330 to you in Christ. According to the power that 00:15:45.330 --> 00:15:51.289 what works in us. Exceedingly, abundantly, above. 00:15:51.429 --> 00:15:54.929 And is that your image of who God is? When you 00:15:54.929 --> 00:15:58.769 think of God in your life and what that means 00:15:58.769 --> 00:16:03.220 to you. Your relationship with him. His activity 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:06.960 in your life is a descriptor of that, him being 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:14.320 exceedingly, abundantly above. God's identity 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:19.259 reveals that his ability is above our perception. 00:16:21.059 --> 00:16:25.679 It's above our perception. His provision is beyond 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.759 our perceived needs and wants being met. It's 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:36.370 beyond that. So let's look now, let's turn in 00:16:36.370 --> 00:16:39.889 our Bibles to Genesis, Genesis 17. We're going 00:16:39.889 --> 00:16:42.129 to be looking at when this first, when God revealed 00:16:42.129 --> 00:16:48.929 himself as El Shaddai, okay? Genesis 17, 1, listen. 00:16:49.190 --> 00:16:53.190 When Abraham was 99 years old, the Lord appeared 00:16:53.190 --> 00:16:58.929 to him and said, I am El Shaddai, God Almighty. 00:17:00.250 --> 00:17:03.629 I want you to take note of... The order in which 00:17:03.629 --> 00:17:07.309 these things are given. I am El Shaddai, God 00:17:07.309 --> 00:17:11.269 Almighty. Serve me faithfully and live a blameless 00:17:11.269 --> 00:17:14.450 life. I will make a covenant with you by which 00:17:14.450 --> 00:17:16.890 I will guarantee to give you countless descendants. 00:17:19.529 --> 00:17:23.730 At this, Abraham fell face down on the ground. 00:17:23.970 --> 00:17:27.170 Then God said to him, this is my covenant with 00:17:27.170 --> 00:17:29.750 you. I will make you the father of a multitude 00:17:29.750 --> 00:17:33.609 of nations. What's more, I'm changing your name. 00:17:33.869 --> 00:17:38.150 It will no longer be called Abram. Instead, you 00:17:38.150 --> 00:17:42.069 will be called Abraham, for you will be the father 00:17:42.069 --> 00:17:45.690 of many nations. He could have just said, you're 00:17:45.690 --> 00:17:47.569 going to be the father of Isaac, and that would 00:17:47.569 --> 00:17:51.970 have been miraculous. But here we're seeing him 00:17:51.970 --> 00:17:53.869 being more than enough. He's like, you're not 00:17:53.869 --> 00:17:55.829 going to be just the father of Isaac. You're 00:17:55.829 --> 00:17:58.750 going to be the father of nations. Anywhere your 00:17:58.750 --> 00:18:02.130 feet will tread, you'll have, lead you into the 00:18:02.130 --> 00:18:04.289 land of Canaan, all those things. I will make 00:18:04.289 --> 00:18:07.329 you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will 00:18:07.329 --> 00:18:10.650 become many nations and kings will be among them. 00:18:12.069 --> 00:18:15.210 And I just want to point out something. The order 00:18:15.210 --> 00:18:20.180 of events is that God reveals to Abram. that 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:24.519 he is El Shaddai, the God who is more than enough. 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.440 And then he gives him a vision, which is a vision 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.779 that he had already given him, and he keeps expanding 00:18:30.779 --> 00:18:34.319 on it, keeps counting it to him. But he wanted 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.480 Abram to get it. He wanted Abraham to see it, 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:46.059 just like God wants you and I to see it. He wants 00:18:46.059 --> 00:18:50.740 you and I to see. Not it, excuse me, but the 00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:54.599 person of who God is. Because once we see that, 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:57.920 we can have faith that the vision and the destiny 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:00.299 and the call of God on your life will come to 00:19:00.299 --> 00:19:06.720 pass. But first and foremost, you have to see 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:15.180 God as I am, El Shaddai. So he tells him who 00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:18.400 he is. God tells Abram who he is. He gives him 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:20.480 the vision of what that's going to look like 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.380 in his life, what God being El Shaddai is going 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:28.059 to play out. It's his high calling, you could 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:33.519 say, as the father of our faith. Then something 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:40.200 special happens. God changes his name. Have you 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:42.740 ever thought about it? God changes his name. 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.660 There's a lot of significance in a name. But 00:19:46.660 --> 00:19:49.660 he changes him from just Abram to now all of 00:19:49.660 --> 00:19:54.259 a sudden Abraham, which was more in line with 00:19:54.259 --> 00:19:56.420 his vision and his promise that he had called 00:19:56.420 --> 00:20:01.339 him to. God wanted Abraham to know him, to believe 00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:05.019 his word of blessing, and to see himself standing 00:20:05.019 --> 00:20:09.700 in those promises to the degree that his identity 00:20:09.700 --> 00:20:13.250 changed. to align with his God -given destiny. 00:20:22.289 --> 00:20:25.410 God is El Shaddai. He's more than enough. He's 00:20:25.410 --> 00:20:27.490 not just the father of Isaac. He's also the father 00:20:27.490 --> 00:20:33.890 of nations. But listen, this is so big. God, 00:20:33.990 --> 00:20:37.930 help us to take a hold of this. Help it to be 00:20:37.930 --> 00:20:43.799 planted in good soil. Give us eyes to see, ears 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:50.640 to hear what your word is speaking. Listen, for 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:56.140 you to become who God wants you to be, you must 00:20:56.140 --> 00:21:03.920 believe God is who he says he is. Not just mentally 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:09.240 agree with. Not just intellectual. This is not 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:14.950 an intellectual pursuit. That's religion. You 00:21:14.950 --> 00:21:20.250 must believe, know, trust that God is who he 00:21:20.250 --> 00:21:26.829 says he is. And you must believe you are who 00:21:26.829 --> 00:21:33.410 God says you are. If we could get a hold of this 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:39.509 church, that's all we need. This is it. This 00:21:39.509 --> 00:21:42.599 is what you need. You think I'm missing, I'm 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:45.220 coming up short, I need to go deeper with God. 00:21:45.259 --> 00:21:48.319 No, you need to believe him more. You need to 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.579 know who he is and believe that God is who he 00:21:52.579 --> 00:21:56.079 says he is and that you are who God says you 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.059 are. As a Christian, what does that look like? 00:21:59.099 --> 00:22:02.559 That means seated with God in heavenly places. 00:22:02.579 --> 00:22:04.960 You're raised up in him. You're made alive in 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:09.839 him. Because in him, through him, we have our 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:12.400 being. We have life to the fullest in excess 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:17.799 until it overflows when we are in Christ. And 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:23.940 if we can see ourselves like God sees us, not 00:22:23.940 --> 00:22:32.680 with all this weight of self -condemnation, if 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.779 we can see ourselves the way God sees us instead 00:22:35.779 --> 00:22:41.200 of the lies that the enemy tells us, if we value 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:46.819 what he speaks to us over the value of the enemy 00:22:46.819 --> 00:22:51.940 trying to speak to us, if we value who he is 00:22:51.940 --> 00:22:54.599 and what he says to us, man, if that was the 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:58.279 most important thing, it would change your life. 00:22:59.019 --> 00:23:03.119 Believe who God says he is. and believe you are 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.839 who God says you are. In the New Testament, it 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.319 talks about Abraham too, and it's very important 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:13.839 what it says here. Let's listen. Romans 4, verse 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.079 16. Therefore, it is of faith, everybody say 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:20.240 faith, faith that it might be according to grace, 00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:23.660 so that the promise might be sure to all the 00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:27.720 seed, not only to those who are of the law, but 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:31.220 also those who are of the faith of Abraham. who 00:23:31.220 --> 00:23:34.680 is the father of us all. As it is written, I 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.960 have made you a father of many nations in the 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.460 presence of him who believed, God, who gives 00:23:41.460 --> 00:23:44.299 life to the dead and calls those things which 00:23:44.299 --> 00:23:49.680 do not exist as though they did, who contrary 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:53.599 to hope and hope believed, so that he, Abram, 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:58.380 became the father of many nations according to 00:23:58.380 --> 00:24:02.549 what was spoken. so shall your descendants be. 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:06.529 And get this, in not being weak in faith, he 00:24:06.529 --> 00:24:10.650 did not consider, I want to pause there, he did 00:24:10.650 --> 00:24:18.930 not consider the natural. He did not consider 00:24:18.930 --> 00:24:24.430 the limitations in the natural. And in order 00:24:24.430 --> 00:24:27.730 for you to be who God wants you to be and step 00:24:27.730 --> 00:24:31.799 into, The high calling of God that he has on 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:35.539 each one of your lives, which is all unique to 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:38.700 you individually. The destiny, the high calling 00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:42.319 that he has given you, that he has for you. In 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:46.660 order for you to step into that place, listen, 00:24:46.779 --> 00:24:51.359 you cannot consider the natural. Your eyes cannot 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:57.140 be on your ability in the natural. What I can 00:24:57.140 --> 00:25:00.480 do in the natural. He did not consider his own 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.599 body already dead, since he was about 100 years 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:08.380 old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did 00:25:08.380 --> 00:25:13.839 not waver. This is so hard for us to do. We're 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:17.400 so bad about wavering at the promise. One day 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:19.859 we see it, one day we take a hold of it, and 00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:22.380 then the next, with our words and our actions, 00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:27.289 we do otherwise. But Abram... There was a point 00:25:27.289 --> 00:25:32.950 in time in his life that all of a sudden he believed 00:25:32.950 --> 00:25:37.890 that God is El Shaddai. It was settled in his 00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:41.710 life. And it can be settled in your life. By 00:25:41.710 --> 00:25:44.910 faith, you can be settled. You can say, God, 00:25:44.990 --> 00:25:48.150 this is who you are no matter what I see, no 00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:50.769 matter what I feel, no matter what I face. God, 00:25:50.869 --> 00:25:58.630 I know who you are. He did not waver at the promise 00:25:58.630 --> 00:26:01.029 of God through unbelief, but was strengthened 00:26:01.029 --> 00:26:07.250 in faith, giving glory to God. In being fully 00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:11.990 convinced that what he had promised, he was also 00:26:11.990 --> 00:26:16.490 able to perform. Amen. What he had promised, 00:26:16.710 --> 00:26:21.630 he was able to perform. God is more than enough. 00:26:21.650 --> 00:26:27.000 Amen. What he promises in his word, he's able 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:32.599 to perform in your life. God's name was given 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:35.680 as a promise for Abraham to trust. Because remember, 00:26:35.779 --> 00:26:39.039 we don't have faith in faith. We have faith in 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:44.440 God. So without knowing who God is and standing 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:50.359 upon that, you can't have faith. If you have 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:54.579 faith in the vision, maybe God's given you. some 00:26:54.579 --> 00:26:58.099 kind of direction or heading in your life, you 00:26:58.099 --> 00:27:03.099 can't put your faith in that and see that reality 00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:11.859 become your reality. You have to ground, settle 00:27:11.859 --> 00:27:17.559 your faith in who God is, in his person, to see 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:24.599 the promise revealed in your life. God wants 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.880 you to see yourself the way he sees you, seeing 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.660 yourself as if the promises of God have already 00:27:30.660 --> 00:27:38.660 been fulfilled. What are some things, I just 00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:41.599 want to ask you this, what are some things in 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:43.480 your life, because it's important to remember, 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:46.839 we talked about this in life group, it's important 00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:49.500 to remember the things that he's brought you 00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:55.849 through. Those help strengthen you individually 00:27:55.849 --> 00:28:01.970 when you recognize that God was at work in my 00:28:01.970 --> 00:28:06.849 life. And I think it's important to realize that 00:28:06.849 --> 00:28:11.829 things that have come to pass in your life may 00:28:11.829 --> 00:28:14.329 be something that you've prayed about, and then 00:28:14.329 --> 00:28:17.150 all of a sudden you're in it today, and that 00:28:17.150 --> 00:28:19.690 thought might be a million miles away, but I 00:28:19.690 --> 00:28:23.400 think it's important for us to remember. That 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.759 you can live in and see yourself as if the promise 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:31.319 of God has already been fulfilled. An example 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:34.059 of that, here's, listen. An example of that is 00:28:34.059 --> 00:28:37.180 before we moved here. I feel like I need to say 00:28:37.180 --> 00:28:40.500 this. Before we moved here, I was in a single 00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:43.140 wide trailer. My wife and I got married and I 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:52.119 was praying for a house. We were moving down 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:55.839 here. And I said, God, you know, wouldn't it 00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:00.339 be great to have a house to do things in? That'd 00:29:00.339 --> 00:29:09.500 just be such a blessing. God, I'm such a baby. 00:29:10.579 --> 00:29:14.460 Some have, I don't know. But it's amazing to 00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:25.829 wake up in an answered prayer. It's amazing to 00:29:25.829 --> 00:29:34.750 live in the place that God has for me. Because 00:29:34.750 --> 00:29:38.829 when I followed him, I stepped into the promise 00:29:38.829 --> 00:29:49.750 that he had made me. And I saw myself here. I 00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:55.019 saw Caitlin and I in a house. I saw it. And now 00:29:55.019 --> 00:30:01.079 I'm in it. I can't tell you how many things in 00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:04.380 my life I've prayed for and it happens. But I 00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:09.220 have to see it in order for me to know that it's 00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:11.000 going to take place. I've got to see me having 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:17.319 it. That's just a part of how it works. God is 00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:20.700 the revealer. Everybody say, God is the revealer. 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.160 He's the revealer of, in his word, we gain knowledge, 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.599 we gain information. He's also the revealer by 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:34.220 the Holy Spirit, special revelation in our lives, 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:38.099 giving us day -to -day direction, guidance, plan, 00:30:38.380 --> 00:30:43.700 illuminating our path, illuminating our minds 00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:47.400 to the truth of the word, of the written word. 00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:51.180 He's also the supplier. And then here at Alation 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:55.880 Church, we talk about God being our source. And 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.259 that's such a strong image to take a hold of, 00:30:58.339 --> 00:31:03.519 is that God is the source of my provision. But 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.839 I want you, in this study today, in this lesson, 00:31:07.940 --> 00:31:13.579 a lot of my life, I looked at God being my source 00:31:13.579 --> 00:31:22.680 of enough. And I looked at... His ability in 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:31.160 the box of my natural understanding. But God 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:36.700 is the God who is not just enough. He is the 00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:40.220 God who is more than enough. And he is the sustainer. 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:45.259 He sustains you by a life lived in faith. By 00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:49.420 standing upon. His word, by knowing it, agreeing 00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:57.119 with it. We all face situations and circumstances 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.720 where our natural abilities, our natural abilities 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:05.000 are not enough to take care of our need, our 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:12.059 present need, right? We all face that. I'll run 00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:14.500 into those situations where I'm like, you look 00:32:14.500 --> 00:32:19.089 at it. Think about it. You go, I don't know. 00:32:21.109 --> 00:32:24.250 What I can do in my flesh is not enough to take 00:32:24.250 --> 00:32:26.690 care of me, to supply for my family, to supply 00:32:26.690 --> 00:32:30.369 for anything. We face those situations and circumstances, 00:32:30.450 --> 00:32:33.509 and I want to look at two different stories today, 00:32:33.609 --> 00:32:37.029 one in the Old Testament, one in the New Testament, 00:32:37.049 --> 00:32:39.730 that I feel like really demonstrate and give 00:32:39.730 --> 00:32:45.390 us better clarity on who God is. When we face 00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:47.789 these trials and tribulations, what has happened, 00:32:47.890 --> 00:32:50.730 okay, and how we can expect God to move in our 00:32:50.730 --> 00:32:54.630 lives. 2 Kings 4, 1 through 7, if you're reading 00:32:54.630 --> 00:32:58.250 along. One day, the widow of a member of the 00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:00.970 group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, 00:33:01.109 --> 00:33:04.289 My husband who served you is dead, and you know 00:33:04.289 --> 00:33:08.289 how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has 00:33:08.289 --> 00:33:11.710 come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves. 00:33:12.779 --> 00:33:16.720 It was a bad situation. But what can I do to 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.839 help you, Elisha asked. Tell me, what do you 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:23.680 have in the house? Nothing at all, except a flask 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.960 of olive oil, she said, she replied. And Elisha 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:31.059 said, borrow as many empty jars as you can from 00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:34.000 your friends and your neighbors. Then go into 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:36.440 your house with your sons and shut the door behind 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:39.339 you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the 00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:42.920 jars, setting it each one aside when it is filled. 00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:50.140 So she did. She acted on the word from God, from 00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:55.680 the prophet. She did. She acted. And just as 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.720 she was told. So she not only did what she was 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.200 supposed to do, she obeyed and did it just like 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:05.500 she was told to do it. Another day, another time. 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:09.940 Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled 00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:14.420 one after another. Soon every container was full 00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:17.719 to the brim. Bring me another jar, she said to 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:20.239 one of her sons. There aren't any more, he told 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:22.860 her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing. 00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:30.519 This is who God is. God's the same yesterday, 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.579 today, and forever. And this is who God is. And 00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:40.539 often we just expect him to be just enough. This 00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:45.239 lady, it would have been great to just even give 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:48.179 her enough for her sons not, you know, to be 00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:50.219 sold as slaves. That would have been enough. 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.800 That would have been huge. That would have been 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.679 a huge miracle in her life. But it didn't stop 00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:01.760 there. Why didn't it stop there? Look at this. 00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:08.480 Let's go back to it. Now sell all the olive oil, 00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:12.480 pay your debts, and you and your sons can what? 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:20.420 Live on what is left over. More than enough. 00:35:20.460 --> 00:35:26.699 God is El Shaddai. Mark 6, another great story. 00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:30.219 Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the 00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:33.900 boat. And as he did compassion on them, as he, 00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:36.760 okay, excuse me. And he had compassion on them 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.500 because they were like sheep without a shepherd. 00:35:40.179 --> 00:35:44.000 So he began teaching them many things. Late in 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.719 the afternoon, his disciples came to him and 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.619 said, this is a remote place and it's already 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:52.920 getting late. Send the crowds away so they can 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.840 go to nearby farms and villages and buy something 00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:04.429 to eat. But Jesus said, You feed them. If you 00:36:04.429 --> 00:36:07.309 look at Jesus' responses, this is great. You 00:36:07.309 --> 00:36:11.789 feed them. You feed them. And they said, with 00:36:11.789 --> 00:36:15.969 what? They asked. We'd have to work for months 00:36:15.969 --> 00:36:18.809 to earn enough money to buy food for all these 00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:26.469 people. Everybody say natural. Natural. And Jesus 00:36:26.469 --> 00:36:30.719 asked, how much bread do you have? Go and find 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.900 out. They came back and reported, listen to what 00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:37.860 they said, we have five loaves of bread and two 00:36:37.860 --> 00:36:43.719 fish. Five loaves of bread and two fish. Everybody 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:50.500 say, not enough. Not enough to feed 5 ,000. It's 00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:54.460 not enough. But to the little boy, as we know 00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:57.639 in different accounts of this same story, the 00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:00.480 little boy, The mother had packed the lunch, 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:09.300 and to the little boy it was just enough. Verse 00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:13.340 39, Jesus told the disciples to have the people 00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:16.639 sit in groups on the green grass. So they sat 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.820 down in groups of 50 or 100. Jesus took the five 00:37:20.820 --> 00:37:23.920 loaves and two fish. Everybody say, not enough. 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:34.489 He did something. He did something. What did 00:37:34.489 --> 00:37:41.789 he do? He looked up. It's interesting that these 00:37:41.789 --> 00:37:46.130 things are included in Scripture. Why would we 00:37:46.130 --> 00:37:49.550 notate that? Is Jesus not the living example 00:37:49.550 --> 00:37:52.650 how we're supposed to live our lives? And when 00:37:52.650 --> 00:37:55.550 we face situations and circumstances that look 00:37:55.550 --> 00:38:04.239 not enough, You have a choice. You can look down 00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:08.900 at what's in your hand, which will always be 00:38:08.900 --> 00:38:23.760 not enough. You can look up. Church, it's time 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:31.630 to look up. Time to stop messing around. You 00:38:31.630 --> 00:38:35.969 either believe God or you don't. Lukewarm Christianity 00:38:35.969 --> 00:38:45.650 is puke Christianity. It's time to look up and 00:38:45.650 --> 00:38:49.550 see not what's in your hand, but look up into 00:38:49.550 --> 00:38:59.360 the realities of who God is. Jesus is looking 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:03.119 up to the Father. He's not looking at the bread 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.079 and the loaves of not enough. He's looking up 00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:08.179 to the Father and he keeps his eyes on El Shaddai. 00:39:09.579 --> 00:39:15.539 Saying, God, you are more than enough. Not just 00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:19.400 in his spiritual, but no, he's more than enough 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:23.900 physical. He's more than enough emotional. He's 00:39:23.900 --> 00:39:30.460 more than enough material. It goes beyond just 00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:36.519 money. He's more than enough joy, more than enough 00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:44.099 peace. Come on. And Jesus looks up into heaven 00:39:44.099 --> 00:39:47.099 as our example and looks up to God as El Shaddai. 00:39:48.139 --> 00:39:50.659 And it never says that he takes his eyes off 00:39:50.659 --> 00:39:54.480 of looking up. And I can just kind of see it. 00:39:55.300 --> 00:39:59.050 All of a sudden, he just starts. Breaking the 00:39:59.050 --> 00:40:04.389 bread. Eyes are on heaven. Eyes into the supernatural 00:40:04.389 --> 00:40:10.070 realm, the spirit realm, where God is, where 00:40:10.070 --> 00:40:13.190 there's always enough. Heaven doesn't run out, 00:40:13.269 --> 00:40:15.849 folks. God's not going to look around one day 00:40:15.849 --> 00:40:17.949 and be like, oh, God, you know, there's not enough 00:40:17.949 --> 00:40:19.750 food here to eat. There's not enough, you know. 00:40:21.869 --> 00:40:26.590 He is more than enough. Then breaking the loaves 00:40:26.590 --> 00:40:29.909 into pieces. He kept giving the bread to the 00:40:29.909 --> 00:40:32.030 disciples so they could distribute it to the 00:40:32.030 --> 00:40:35.510 people. Listen, he also divided the fish for 00:40:35.510 --> 00:40:39.070 everyone to share. That just seems really messy 00:40:39.070 --> 00:40:43.050 to me. I've always wondered about that. That'd 00:40:43.050 --> 00:40:48.289 be nasty. They all ate as much as they wanted. 00:40:49.469 --> 00:40:53.269 All their wants, all their need, their greatest 00:40:53.269 --> 00:40:59.289 need in that moment was to be fed. It was all 00:40:59.289 --> 00:41:03.730 satisfied. And afterward, the disciples picked 00:41:03.730 --> 00:41:06.590 up, get this, could have just been enough. It 00:41:06.590 --> 00:41:09.130 could have just ran out. Have you ever thought 00:41:09.130 --> 00:41:11.289 about this? If you've heard this story before, 00:41:11.349 --> 00:41:15.230 have you ever like really thought about why the 00:41:15.230 --> 00:41:18.730 disciples pick up 12 baskets of leftover bread 00:41:18.730 --> 00:41:26.130 and fish? Why? Seems like a waste. Uh -uh. It's 00:41:26.130 --> 00:41:31.590 not a waste. Because when God gets involved, 00:41:32.010 --> 00:41:40.909 there's more than enough. Come on. Come on, church. 00:41:41.630 --> 00:41:45.889 Are you dead or alive? How long? How long do 00:41:45.889 --> 00:41:48.030 we got to keep sharing these truths and sharing 00:41:48.030 --> 00:41:52.230 this until we take a hold of it by faith? Wake 00:41:52.230 --> 00:41:57.769 up. Come on. We're not called to stay sheep. 00:41:57.849 --> 00:42:00.519 We're called to be an army. Fighting the good 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:07.840 fight of faith. Soldiers. Mighty. Strong. Not 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:16.519 in muscle, but in faith. I'm strong. Unwavered. 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:22.420 Unwavering. I don't say, oh, God, you're barely 00:42:22.420 --> 00:42:24.360 enough for me today, and then now you're, oh, 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.719 now you're this, you know, and oh, now you're 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.500 enough, and no, and then, you know. On Sunday 00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:31.280 morning, we're like, oh, yeah, praise Jesus, 00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:34.099 bless the Lord. You're so good. You're everything. 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.340 Monday, you're going, what do I do? What do I 00:42:37.340 --> 00:42:38.900 do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do 00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:40.000 about my family? What do I do about my kids? 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:41.659 What do I do about my mind? What do I do about 00:42:41.659 --> 00:42:43.340 the finance? What do I do about the car? What 00:42:43.340 --> 00:42:49.300 is the car? We all do it. You're not alone. If 00:42:49.300 --> 00:42:52.019 the enemy can tell you you're alone, you've already 00:42:52.019 --> 00:42:56.559 listened to him. You've already lost. What you 00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:59.309 face is no different. what everyone else faces, 00:42:59.510 --> 00:43:05.250 you're not alone. For with God, he doesn't forsake 00:43:05.250 --> 00:43:07.789 you. He'll never leave you. He'll never forsake 00:43:07.789 --> 00:43:12.550 you. His promises are yes and amen. He doesn't 00:43:12.550 --> 00:43:19.349 have to manufacture things. God doesn't manufacture 00:43:19.349 --> 00:43:23.789 things. Who he is is more than enough. And God 00:43:23.789 --> 00:43:25.610 doesn't want to just meet your need. He wants 00:43:25.610 --> 00:43:31.659 to exceed your expectation. Twelve baskets left 00:43:31.659 --> 00:43:34.340 over. A total of 5 ,000 men and their families 00:43:34.340 --> 00:43:37.320 were fed from those loaves. God is El Shaddai 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:41.440 more than enough. I'm almost done. This is a 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.920 reality of who God is that I believe you and 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:47.300 I, we often lose sight of. No matter what's going 00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:51.079 on in the natural, listen, your outcome is dependent 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.179 upon who you believe God is and what he will 00:43:54.179 --> 00:43:58.619 do, what he is able to do in your life. In every 00:43:58.619 --> 00:44:01.820 circumstance or situation, you have a choice. 00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:06.179 Let's apply this. Let's apply this to our lives. 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.420 In every situation, in every circumstance you 00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:14.739 and I face, you have a choice to believe. We 00:44:14.739 --> 00:44:18.599 have free will. Choice to believe that God is 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:22.079 not enough. Choice to believe God is just enough. 00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:28.300 Or to take hold of who God is. Being more than 00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:32.739 enough. And what do these three areas look like? 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:38.860 Not enough is lack. It's complaining. It's characterized 00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:42.500 by complaining and talking about the things that 00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:46.980 you don't have. Talking about the things that 00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:53.460 you wish you did. Always without. Never satisfied. 00:44:56.010 --> 00:45:00.710 Never at peace. Never full of this joy that we 00:45:00.710 --> 00:45:04.130 sing about at church. Always seems so distant, 00:45:04.250 --> 00:45:06.010 like I might try to chase it, I might try to 00:45:06.010 --> 00:45:12.489 have it, but I lose it so easily. It's misplaced 00:45:12.489 --> 00:45:16.989 dependency. What does that look like? A lot of 00:45:16.989 --> 00:45:21.730 us are dependent upon other things. We'll say 00:45:21.730 --> 00:45:27.860 things like, well... You know, if this works 00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:32.539 out well, then I'll be good, right? Like if the 00:45:32.539 --> 00:45:34.920 stock market does good this year, I'll be, you 00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:39.860 know, my family will be fine. If, I'm sorry, 00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:46.179 if my job does good this quarter, then my raise 00:45:46.179 --> 00:45:49.079 will go up and everything will be okay. And so 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.030 we start. When you're in the land of not enough 00:45:52.030 --> 00:45:54.349 and God's not sure enough, you start processing 00:45:54.349 --> 00:45:57.570 things a little different. You start depending 00:45:57.570 --> 00:46:03.670 on the outside world. And you really think that 00:46:03.670 --> 00:46:07.489 you can pray to manipulate the outside world 00:46:07.489 --> 00:46:10.690 to be, and you think you're doing the right thing 00:46:10.690 --> 00:46:13.429 because you think you're like manipulating the 00:46:13.429 --> 00:46:15.670 world around you to be because this is what God 00:46:15.670 --> 00:46:22.500 has for me. You're going to give me a mean face, 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:33.039 I'll give you a mean face. We try to use our 00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:36.880 prayers as for God to somehow come in and swoop 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:40.639 in and rearrange people's minds and hearts and 00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:44.079 manipulate their will so that I will all of a 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:49.460 sudden live in the blessings of God. We laugh, 00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:58.289 but it's true. Misplaced dependency. And I would 00:46:58.289 --> 00:47:02.650 categorize this as no faith. You know, just because 00:47:02.650 --> 00:47:06.710 you might have mental knowledge of who God is. 00:47:06.769 --> 00:47:08.769 Maybe you spent time in church. Maybe, like, 00:47:08.849 --> 00:47:11.829 you have these things, but we can enter into 00:47:11.829 --> 00:47:14.369 seasons where we just, you know, we're so dependent 00:47:14.369 --> 00:47:16.929 on everybody else and everything around us and 00:47:16.929 --> 00:47:21.440 all lining up, thinking that... That has to happen 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:27.820 in order for God to bless us. When the Bible 00:47:27.820 --> 00:47:31.739 says this in Matthew 6, 25 and 30, that is why 00:47:31.739 --> 00:47:34.199 I tell you not to worry about everyday life. 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:36.900 You know, you can tell if someone's in faith 00:47:36.900 --> 00:47:39.500 or not based upon if they're in worry or not. 00:47:42.659 --> 00:47:47.059 Can't be in faith and in worry. Cannot coexist. 00:47:50.219 --> 00:47:53.460 If you believe it can, you're in, it's just, 00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:56.019 you're believing the lie of the enemy. You can't 00:47:56.019 --> 00:47:59.840 be in worry and can't be in faith. What you're 00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:04.820 in faith for, you're most excited about. Worry 00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:07.880 is often categorized in fear, what you're most 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:13.239 fearful of. That's why you worry. Don't worry 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.059 about everyday life, whether you have enough 00:48:16.059 --> 00:48:20.099 food or drink or enough clothes to wear. Thankfully, 00:48:20.179 --> 00:48:22.059 I don't think anyone in this room is worried 00:48:22.059 --> 00:48:25.579 about those things. But I think all of us have 00:48:25.579 --> 00:48:29.480 worried about material things at one point in 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:33.179 life or another. Don't worry about it. Don't 00:48:33.179 --> 00:48:40.280 look to the material things of this world. Whether 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:44.300 you have enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more 00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:47.280 than food? Isn't your body more than clothing? 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.159 Look. Tells us where to look. Look at the birds. 00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:59.340 They don't plant, harvest, or store food in barns. 00:49:01.219 --> 00:49:05.440 Think about that. They don't plant, harvest, 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:08.739 or store food in barns. For your heavenly Father 00:49:08.739 --> 00:49:18.960 feeds them. Aren't you far more valuable to him 00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:22.400 than they are? Can all your worries add a single 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:26.159 moment to your life? And why worry about your 00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:30.119 clothing? Look, again, at the lilies of the field 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:33.860 and how they grow. They don't work or make their 00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:36.599 clothing, yet Solomon in all of his glory was 00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:40.420 not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if 00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:43.780 God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that 00:49:43.780 --> 00:49:46.809 are here today, Thrown into the fire tomorrow. 00:49:47.949 --> 00:49:51.449 He will certainly care for you. Listen to what 00:49:51.449 --> 00:49:56.889 he says. Why do you have so little faith? It 00:49:56.889 --> 00:50:02.190 means faith is on a scale. You can have little 00:50:02.190 --> 00:50:04.789 faith. You can have no faith. You can have great 00:50:04.789 --> 00:50:09.630 faith. And again, there's these three areas. 00:50:10.269 --> 00:50:14.230 God is either not enough, just enough, or more 00:50:14.230 --> 00:50:19.510 than enough. to you and your outcome, your outcome 00:50:19.510 --> 00:50:24.429 is dependent upon your faith. Getting ahead of 00:50:24.429 --> 00:50:27.730 myself. If we do not have faith in God's promises, 00:50:27.829 --> 00:50:32.429 listen, look this way, we will live beneath our 00:50:32.429 --> 00:50:36.409 divine privilege. If we do not have faith in 00:50:36.409 --> 00:50:41.409 God's promises, if the reality of who he is is 00:50:41.409 --> 00:50:45.289 not bigger than the realities of your natural 00:50:45.289 --> 00:50:49.789 world. You will live beneath your divine privilege. 00:50:51.269 --> 00:50:55.030 What does just enough look like? I believe all 00:50:55.030 --> 00:51:02.050 of us, you know, kind of sit here for given times. 00:51:03.030 --> 00:51:05.949 What does just enough look like? It means being 00:51:05.949 --> 00:51:08.550 unsettled about God's will. We've talked about 00:51:08.550 --> 00:51:11.869 that a little bit. Sometimes question his ability. 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:17.679 We're wavering. Basic needs are met. Often we 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:22.559 go through seasons, I would say, of faith. And 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.199 we see miracles even happen. But we get to this 00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:29.320 place of, God, where are you at? And how are 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.260 you going to provide? I don't know. And so God 00:51:31.260 --> 00:51:34.199 does some things in your life to show you who 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:41.340 he is. And in this area, even though you're wavering, 00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:43.800 God is still merciful and he still does some 00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:50.579 miraculous things. But that's not who he wants 00:51:50.579 --> 00:51:55.619 to be and that's not all of who he is. That's 00:51:55.619 --> 00:52:00.039 not what he wants for you. Not his will for you. 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:07.219 It's to just have just enough. Again, this is 00:52:07.219 --> 00:52:12.010 not just, This is not some good message on prosperity 00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:14.650 or something like that. This is talking about 00:52:14.650 --> 00:52:17.130 faith. Because without faith, it's impossible 00:52:17.130 --> 00:52:22.110 to please God. You might believe, well, I have 00:52:22.110 --> 00:52:25.570 just enough joy today to make it through. To 00:52:25.570 --> 00:52:27.809 have just enough peace today to make it through. 00:52:29.769 --> 00:52:33.170 Self -condemnation means like, you know, maybe 00:52:33.170 --> 00:52:39.090 you doubt his righteousness enough. for me for 00:52:39.090 --> 00:52:42.530 the sins that i've committed you don't know what 00:52:42.530 --> 00:52:44.869 i've done you know like you don't know what i've 00:52:44.869 --> 00:52:47.389 thought you don't know what i've said and his 00:52:47.389 --> 00:52:51.269 and is his grace and you know who he is is it 00:52:51.269 --> 00:52:58.789 enough to cleanse me is his righteousness enough 00:52:58.789 --> 00:53:03.489 covering so that when god looks at me he sees 00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:11.820 Jesus, he sees the blood of Jesus. We often want 00:53:11.820 --> 00:53:14.400 to limit God's work to our natural understanding. 00:53:15.980 --> 00:53:18.460 This is how we pray. This is how we process reality. 00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:23.579 And a key indicator, you can always tell when 00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:26.480 you're in it or you hear you're talking to someone 00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:30.079 and they're in this mindset of God just being 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.639 just enough because the focus is all on self. 00:53:35.369 --> 00:53:40.090 and personal needs. And if all you are in this 00:53:40.090 --> 00:53:43.170 life, if the world just revolves around you, 00:53:43.309 --> 00:53:46.389 every word that you say, every thought that you 00:53:46.389 --> 00:53:49.250 think, and you're just preoccupied with you, 00:53:49.389 --> 00:53:54.869 listen, you're ineffective for the kingdom of 00:53:54.869 --> 00:54:03.969 God. You're ineffective. It's not about you. 00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:09.599 The kingdom of God is not about you. And if all 00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:12.880 you're focused on is on yourself, guess what? 00:54:14.139 --> 00:54:16.800 Your outcome is just going to be what you can 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:22.780 perform in your natural ability. If it's based 00:54:22.780 --> 00:54:32.900 on my works and my effort, all on my need. I 00:54:32.900 --> 00:54:36.340 need this. I need this. It's like a selfish child. 00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:41.239 God doesn't want us to be that. He wants us to 00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:47.179 grow up. He wants us to look up. And what does 00:54:47.179 --> 00:54:49.639 it look like when God is, you're more than enough? 00:54:51.179 --> 00:54:55.340 It's a confidence in El Shaddai. That's who he 00:54:55.340 --> 00:54:59.480 is. And it's characterized by living in his promise 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:03.460 by faith. Every need generously provided for 00:55:03.460 --> 00:55:07.650 with what? Plenty left over to share with others. 00:55:08.130 --> 00:55:12.730 It's a focus on God and his kingdom work in the 00:55:12.730 --> 00:55:20.409 earth and others. The measure of your faith in 00:55:20.409 --> 00:55:21.750 God, and this is what we've been saying, the 00:55:21.750 --> 00:55:24.170 measure of your faith in God is the measure your 00:55:24.170 --> 00:55:27.269 reality will mirror God's perfect will and plan 00:55:27.269 --> 00:55:33.550 for your life. We receive not according to God's 00:55:33.550 --> 00:55:35.929 ability, but according to our faith in who He 00:55:35.929 --> 00:55:46.269 is and what we are confident He will do. More 00:55:46.269 --> 00:55:49.309 verses on who God is. 1 Corinthians 2 .9, we 00:55:49.309 --> 00:55:52.150 just read it. No eye has seen and no ear has 00:55:52.150 --> 00:55:55.530 heard. No mind has imagined what God has prepared 00:55:55.530 --> 00:55:59.289 for those. God has prepared some things for you. 00:56:00.809 --> 00:56:03.489 Just like he had a plan and a purpose for Abraham, 00:56:03.750 --> 00:56:07.050 and he calls him to go stand in the promises. 00:56:07.250 --> 00:56:10.630 There's a place of provision for you. There's 00:56:10.630 --> 00:56:15.190 a place, spiritual place, that God wants you 00:56:15.190 --> 00:56:17.610 to enter into, full of his life, full of his 00:56:17.610 --> 00:56:22.150 joy, the abundant life of Christ. Not based on 00:56:22.150 --> 00:56:24.730 your circumstances, but based and grounded in 00:56:24.730 --> 00:56:29.349 faith of who he is. And it's greater than you've 00:56:29.349 --> 00:56:32.840 ever seen. It's greater than you've ever heard. 00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:37.920 His plans for you are greater than you can wildest 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:46.420 dreams imagine. I can imagine a lot. But he has 00:56:46.420 --> 00:56:48.460 something for each and every person in this room 00:56:48.460 --> 00:56:53.099 that's as unique and as identical, as unique 00:56:53.099 --> 00:57:00.239 and special as your fingerprint. And he is waiting 00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:05.000 for you, his children, the called out ones, the 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:12.420 church, to believe him, to see him, to know him, 00:57:12.539 --> 00:57:16.860 and see yourself living in those promises and 00:57:16.860 --> 00:57:21.860 start moving out in faith, marching forward as 00:57:21.860 --> 00:57:26.880 an army of the living God and stepping into his 00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:30.519 life of promise. Stepping into that promised 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.000 land that he has for you. Because in that season, 00:57:34.139 --> 00:57:38.380 without complaining, right? If you're just stuck 00:57:38.380 --> 00:57:40.139 in the land of just enough, you're never going 00:57:40.139 --> 00:57:41.760 to make it to the promised land. If you're just 00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:44.119 complaining about God, we don't have it out. 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:46.739 I have manna, I have quail, I might have, but 00:57:46.739 --> 00:57:48.880 it's not, you know. You're going to wander in 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:53.000 the wilderness, church. God's either, you're 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:55.380 more than enough and you... take hold of it today 00:57:55.380 --> 00:57:58.079 and you walk out this door different and changed, 00:57:58.420 --> 00:58:01.840 or you will keep wandering around in the wilderness. 00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:06.840 You will keep not having what God wants you to 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.300 have, and your life won't look like what God 00:58:09.300 --> 00:58:13.960 wants you to have and live in. Jeremiah 29, 11. 00:58:14.750 --> 00:58:17.070 Very popular verse, but I want you to see it 00:58:17.070 --> 00:58:20.090 in this light. For I know the plans I have for 00:58:20.090 --> 00:58:22.989 you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and 00:58:22.989 --> 00:58:26.750 not for disaster, to give you a future and a 00:58:26.750 --> 00:58:32.829 hope. The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. 00:58:35.269 --> 00:58:37.150 What does he try to steal, kill, and destroy? 00:58:37.269 --> 00:58:41.420 Your hope. Your confident expectation of who 00:58:41.420 --> 00:58:43.980 God is. He's wanting to kill, steal, and destroy 00:58:43.980 --> 00:58:47.800 that. If he can make you doubt the promise, he 00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:53.260 can take any promise away from you. If he can 00:58:53.260 --> 00:58:57.280 make you doubt who you are in Christ, you've 00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:01.559 lost the battle. You have to be confident in 00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:07.840 who God is and who he says you are. 2 Corinthians 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:11.989 9 .8 And God will generously provide all you 00:59:11.989 --> 00:59:15.650 need. He cares about your need. We learned last 00:59:15.650 --> 00:59:18.329 week, the Lord is our shepherd, I shall not want. 00:59:21.409 --> 00:59:26.869 Powerful. Then, you will always have everything 00:59:26.869 --> 00:59:31.150 you need and plenty left over to share with others, 00:59:31.210 --> 00:59:34.250 every good work. I put every good work in there, 00:59:34.289 --> 00:59:37.960 other translations. Translated different. I like 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:39.840 what the Amplified says. It's just amplifying 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:43.019 those Greek words. Kind of carries them out into 00:59:43.019 --> 00:59:45.099 their extent. Sometimes it's hard to read, though. 00:59:45.820 --> 01:00:09.119 But it says, abundance for every good work and 01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:12.400 charitable donation. That's when we're useful 01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:15.519 to the kingdom of God. And that's what his promises 01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:18.280 of him being El Shaddai, that's what that looks 01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:22.159 like in your life. Self -sufficiency is not self 01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:25.840 -worth, self -action, my abilities and my things. 01:00:25.860 --> 01:00:32.760 It's being satisfied physically, emotionally, 01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:38.940 materially. satisfied, seated in, unwavering 01:00:38.940 --> 01:00:43.239 in the knowledge. Listen, and I'm done. Psalms 01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:45.900 910, those who know your name, what does that 01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:49.239 mean? To know fully, to recognize, intellectual 01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:52.840 awareness, experiential knowledge, intimate familiarity, 01:00:53.420 --> 01:01:00.099 deep personal relational knowledge, activity, 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:10.250 relationship, identity. Those who seek you. What 01:01:10.250 --> 01:01:17.190 does seek mean? Inquire. Require. Investigate. 01:01:17.190 --> 01:01:20.889 Demand. Diligently search with the intent of 01:01:20.889 --> 01:01:27.849 obtaining information and understanding. As received 01:01:27.849 --> 01:01:33.090 by the Holy Spirit, bringing the truth of Scripture 01:01:33.090 --> 01:01:36.739 alive to you. him speaking to you in fellowship 01:01:36.739 --> 01:01:41.440 with him, daily communion with him, will put 01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:44.380 their trust, remember, confident expectation, 01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:48.719 for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek 01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:57.360 you. My God is El Shaddai. God completely nourishes, 01:01:57.659 --> 01:02:02.940 satisfies, and supplies me. All my needs are 01:02:02.940 --> 01:02:07.050 taken care of. And I have more than enough to 01:02:07.050 --> 01:02:13.909 give to every good work. I want us to say it 01:02:13.909 --> 01:02:16.449 together. I think it's important to confess this. 01:02:17.250 --> 01:02:19.929 You can take a picture of it. Take a picture 01:02:19.929 --> 01:02:24.230 of it. Say it until you believe it. Until you 01:02:24.230 --> 01:02:26.070 take a hold of it. Let's say it together. One, 01:02:26.090 --> 01:02:31.510 two, three. My God is El Shaddai. God completely 01:02:31.510 --> 01:02:36.380 nourishes. satisfies and supplies me. All my 01:02:36.380 --> 01:02:39.679 needs are taken care of, and I have more than 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:44.400 enough to give to every good work. That promise 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:48.860 is connected in his person, who he is. When you 01:02:48.860 --> 01:02:53.579 know him, when you seek him accordingly, you 01:02:53.579 --> 01:02:57.599 will experience it in your life. This online 01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.199 worship experience was brought to you by the 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.079 friends and partners of Elation Church.