You are invited to open your Bible today and look for God's voice amidst the noise of your daily stress. As you read His Word, remember that He is faithful to speak and provide for you just as He did for others. Take a moment to surrender your worries and wait quietly on His promises.
Welcome to The Real Church Podcast. Our mission is for you to know the love of Jesus and live out your God given purpose. Now, join us and listen in to the latest message from pastor David John Phillips.
I get asked all the time, do you guys welcome everybody at Real Church? 100%, unapologetically, the answer to that is yes. Absolutely. We welcome you. And here's why.
We have a core value, and just in case you didn't know, values, basically, it's the DNA, it's the lifeblood, it's it's who we are at Real Church. It should Like, everywhere that you see Real Church, it should They should embody, we should embody these core values. 1 of them is to love boldly. Where does that come from? Well, Jesus, at Real Church, we will be known for loving you with the same kind of radical, scandalous love that Jesus has for us.
He loved us while we were still in the middle of our junk, in the middle of our mess so much that he gave his life for us so that we could know him. So we will be known for radically loving people no matter who they are, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, and no matter what you've done. Love boldly. I want you to know that you are accepted. We accept you here at Real Church.
Why? Because *Jesus* accepts you. As a matter of fact, maybe while you're running away from him, he has his arms open wide, and he's looking at you, and he's screaming in love, hey, "run back to me". Run to me. I love you.
I will give you rest. He accepts you no matter where you are, he accepts you as you are. Why? Because he loves you too much. Once you accept him, you surrender to him.
He loves you too much to to leave you there, but he wants to take you with him and show you who he created you to be. He loves you too much to leave you there. So, when you accept Christ, when you surrender your life to Him You know, a lot of people think that that means that, you know, God's gonna empower you to be the best version of you that you could possibly be, and that's just not true whatsoever in any shape, form, or fashion. No. You're born again.
You're a brand new creation in Him. You have a new identity. No longer it it's no longer you who live, but Christ who lives in you. A brand new, a fresh start, a new you. That's what it means to accept Christ and to surrender your life to him, is amazing.
It's awesome. And, as I said this morning, this is real church. Real people living a real life for real Jesus and having a "real good time". That's it. Amen?
You can clap for that if you want to. That's awesome. Yeah. Jesus is amazing. So, we are continuing with part 3 of the hearing God series.
If you missed out on the first couple of parts, that's okay. Because of Jade Fulford, our communications director, who's amazing, He's made it to where we have this podcast, so you can catch up on parts 1 and parts 2, or in the first series, and that's that podcast is available across all platforms. You just search Real Church Clearwater and it should be right there. It'll be awesome. So, part 1 was, can I hear God?
So, we proved that, yes, we can indeed hear *God in our daily life*. As a matter of fact, we're created for a conversational relationship with God, which is pretty cool. Part 2, we answered the question in a life giving way, why don't I hear from God? Maybe you've asked yourself that, so you wanna check that out. But today, in part 3, we're gonna begin to answer the question, how do I hear from God?
And, we'll do that over the today and next Sunday will be part 2 of I mean, will be the the rest of the question of how do I practically, in my daily life, hear from God. I hear you pastor, we're supposed to have this conversational daily relationship with God, but that kinda seems a little far fetched. Right? No. It's very real and it's very amazing.
So how does that work? Well, 1, God speaks to you through the Holy Spirit by his Son from the Father. Okay. So through the Holy Spirit by *Jesus* and from the Father. And how does that work out?
Well, for the most part, I mean, he speaks in many different ways and but we're gonna cover 4. Number 1, the Bible. Number 2, prayer. Number 3, experience. And number 4, through other people.
Okay? And I asked the first service the same question. Do you guys believe that God can use people to speak to people? Yes. Okay.
Cool. Well, then, if that's the case, then do you believe that *today* it's possible it could happen that God could use me to speak to you? Yes. Okay. Well, great.
Well, if that's the case then, let's pray for that to happen. Okay? And let's pray for for shoot. I don't want, you know, me to I want me to get out of the way, Lord, and and God use me to speak through me to you, and and let's all learn together. And if that's the case, if God is speaking, then let's lean in expect with an expectancy waiting to hear from God, knowing that his word is life and his word is eternal.
So if I hear his voice, it's gonna build faith in me and impact me for eternity in a way that changes me from the inside out, and doesn't leave me the same. So I walk out of here not the same as I came before, and not only does it impact me, because if his word is impacting me in that way, then it's also gonna impact every single 1 around me, change me, and change them, my family, and my job for the better. Right. Does that sound good? Well, pray with me.
Father, I thank you for who you are. You're amazing and you're wonderful, Lord. Lord, and and just because we did this in the service before, doesn't mean we just go through the motions again, God. Lord, I ask you to speak. Father, we want you to speak today.
Lord, that that I would get out of the way, Lord God. This is about you and your church, Lord. And we would grow in our understanding of who you are. Father, give us ears to hear what you wanna say, Lord. Let us all learn from you and walk away from today forever ever changed, Lord.
A little closer, a little deeper understanding of your love for us, Lord, and who we are in you, and how to walk with you and hear your voice daily. In Jesus' name, amen. Now, this is the Bible. This is what we're talking about today. It's all dedicated to this.
Alright? So now now with this, how do we hear from this? I want you to know that if you hear God's voice through prayer, through experience, or through another person, even through myself, and it's not in line with the Bible, with with the principles, character, and nature of God as defined by this, then what you heard was not from God. What you heard in prayer or that thought that came in or or that pastor, whether it was myself or somebody else or somebody on TV that seems to be super famous, whatever. If it's not in line with scripture, it's junk.
Period. So I encourage you every single time you come here, every time you listen to a podcast, go back, write down the scriptures because, I mean, I like to roll through them pretty fast. Write down the scriptures. Go back. Read them in context.
Check it. Make sure what I'm saying is actually in the Word. Okay? Because it'll be good for you. You'll be getting into the Word a little bit deeper, but then also, you'll know whether or not you can can you can trust.
Because, hey, I'm just a I'm just a guy, but I'm a guy that wants to be used by him to impact everyone around me because I love him and I know how much he loves me. Amen? Alright. So, *today, the Bible, the Word of God*, do you ever find yourself, or have you ever found yourself with this thing? You go to you want to pick it up, or you have the thought to go pick it up or whatever, and and maybe you wait a couple of moments, a couple of minutes, hours go by, maybe days, weeks, months, even years, and you never pick it up.
Or, when you finally do pick it up, you open it up, and you begin to read, and it reads as if it's calculus, and you're not a math major. Has that ever happened to you before? Or maybe maybe you hear about how the bible can be opened up. You know, there was a lot of other people that wanted to laugh at that too, so don't don't feel bad you're the only 1 that laughed. Maybe maybe you go to open it up and, you know, you hear all these people talk about how miraculous it is and how it spoke to them, but when you read it, it just reads like a history book, like a bunch of stories from far off, and you're like, man, like, people say that this is life giving, but I don't feel any life from this.
How do I hear God from this? Well, I'm glad you asked. First, why is it called the Word of God? We're gonna go through a couple of stats and facts, so just kinda stick with me here. This is a collection of 66 different books written by 40 different authors, 40 different men, across 1500 years, and it's in perfect synchronicity, it's in perfect unity, there's no error in it whatsoever, it's divinely inspired by God because in God there is no error, so there can't be any error in this.
It's the best seller of all time, which is pretty awesome. And then, a little more scientific stuff. It's 47,000 ancient manuscripts that collaborate to show that this is actually what was originally written. 42,000 scrolls and codices for the Old Testament, 5,800 different manuscripts for the New Testament, and there's a science called Once again, stick with me here. There's a science called text criticism that shows that the authors who say that they wrote it, it wasn't forged hundreds of years later just by governments trying to control you.
It was actually forged or written by the people who say that they wrote it as inspired by God, and it works together so perfectly saying that it was indeed God who inspired them, because it couldn't work together that perfectly otherwise. How amazing is that? People who try to disprove it and give an honest look into it end up giving their life to Jesus. So why? And if you've never really given an honest look at it, you've just kinda go with what you've always been told about it, I dare you.
It will change your life forever. And here's the reason. In 2 Timothy-3:16, it says, all scripture is and we're gonna dive into this verse a little bit later. But, it says, all scripture is God breathed. Now, all scripture being God breathed, what does that mean?
When I think about scripture being God breathed, I think it brings to mind in Genesis-1, when God formed mankind, he formed Adam out of the dust of the earth. And, when he gets done forming him, the form of a man was there. God leans over him and he breathes life into him. God's breath gave life to Adam and scripture is all scripture is God breathed, therefore, it is living and when you're reading it, you're reading the living life giving word of God. Remember, *Matthew-4:4* says, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes to from the mouth of God.
Therefore, understanding how to hear his voice and how to hear him through the word is vitally important for our life. Amen? So I don't read the Bible to know about him. I read the Bible to know him. Who knows you can open up the Bible and you can read it as just another history book, read it as a bunch of stories, and it doesn't mean anything whatsoever to you.
It it doesn't change anything about you. And the reason for that is in *1 Corinthians-8:1*, it says, knowledge "puffs up" knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. So you can read this just to gain a bunch of knowledge, you can memorize memory verses just to make yourself feel better about you being more religious and knowing more things about the Bible than the next person, and it's just a bunch of knowledge that puffs up your head, but not love that builds up your heart. Right? Because who is love?
*God* is love. And, as we understand who he is more, it builds us up here, but if it's just knowledge that builds us up in our head, then we just get a bunch of pride and eventually, fall over. We get top heavy. Does that make sense? So, we don't read this to know about God, we read this to "know Him".
*Romans-10:17* says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Notice what it doesn't say. It doesn't say faith comes by reading. It says faith comes by hearing. So you can read this book all that you want and it's just a bunch of cold words on pages unless it's illuminated by the Holy Spirit, and as you read it, you're hearing the voice of God speak to you, illuminating the words, allowing it to penetrate your heart and change you from the inside out.
There's a difference. It's the motivation of the heart. Let's talk about it. Let's go to Exodus-33. In Exodus-33, Moses is having a conversation with God.
And if you remember from last Sunday, or the Sunday before last, we talked about *James-5:17* through 19, where it says, Elijah was a man just like us, which changes the game. Right? These aren't Elijah and Moses aren't a bunch of characters from a story long ago. Elijah was a man just like us. That changes things.
That means Moses, Elijah, all of these guys were people just like us who had real problems, had real life experiences, and really listened and talked with God, and experienced the things that it talks about, which means that if they're just like us, then we can experience God in the same ways that they did, and experience the same things that they did in our daily life. It changes the game. So Moses and God are conversating with 1 another in Exodus-33, and in verse 11 it said, the Lord would or says, the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as 1 speaks to a *friend*. Everybody say friend. Friend.
Remember, John-15, it says, we are friends of God. We're no longer servants, but friends. Why? Because we can know him. We can walk with him because of what Jesus has done for us.
It's kind of a big deal. Face to face as a friend. Verse 17, and the Lord said to Moses, I will do the very thing you have asked because I am pleased with you, and I know you by name. *God* can know everything. God knows everything.
He's all knowing, but, because He's a gentleman, He only knows about you what you reveal to Him, what you allow Him to know. Does that make sense? Because you can be closed off to God. You cannot allow him to know any part of you. You can say, no, I'm I'm gonna hold this from you and because he's a gentleman, he'll say, okay.
But but no, we want to open up everything to him because the more that we are open to him, the more we're allowed the more we're we're saying we want to be in deep friendship with you. Just like in a in a marriage relationship or or friendship, know, as as a deep friends, the more that you reveal about yourself, the deeper you are you can go into that friendship. But the more closed off you are, the the more secluded you are from that person. Same thing with God. So then Moses said, now show me your glory.
So Moses and God are "chilling". He says, hey, show me your glory. And God said, I will cause all of my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But he said, you cannot see my face, for no 1 may see me and live.
Now, wait a second. Didn't he just say that Moses used to talk face to face with Jesus or with the with the Lord? Right? It just it said that, and then it said, you cannot see my face, for no 1 can see my face and live. So, is there a contradiction?
Come on, Pastor, I thought you said that, like, this complete synchronicity, complete unity, there's no error, but yet, it looks like as if there's some things that are just not working out, face to face, not face to face, you can't live. How does that Let's talk about it. I love this. You guys ready? Yes?
No? Maybe so? I don't know. Alright. Let's unlock this mystery.
Mystery's always found in Jesus. So John *John-1:1*. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. So the Word is God, and yet the Word was with God in the beginning.
So it's *John-1:14*, the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen the glory of the 1 and only son who came from the father full in grace and truth. So the word was the son, the word is Jesus become flesh. Jesus is God, but yet yet is the Son. It's an amazing thing.
Okay? You guys follow me there. So, when we look into the word, the Word of God, when we look into this, we're looking into Jesus, we are looking into God. It's almost as if we can say we're "looking into the face of God". You guys follow me so far?
Now, as I look into His word, this is the this is how it works. No 1 can see my face and live. No 1 can see me and live. As I look into His Word, I see Him. And as I allow His Word to penetrate my heart, it does away with who I thought I was, and raises me up into the truth of who He says I am.
Does that make sense? Because in Christ, it's no longer I who live, but He who lives in me. I've given my life, I have a new identity in Him. Man, we're always believing lies, always believing that we're the same old person we used to be, but if you've given your life to Christ, "everything is made new". We have to put away how we feel in the moment and trust what He says about us because what He says is more truth than what we think.
And as we put our eyes and our mind on what he says, we begin to walk in that and we realize that the old us is gone because we've looked into the word and we no longer live. That's gone. It's Christ who lives in us and we have this new life in him and it's amazing and it's wonderful. We talked about baptism coming up. Baptism is coming up next Sunday, which is awesome.
We have a lot of people who've given their life to Jesus and are ready to be baptized. And and kind of what I'm talking about is baptism or goes along with baptism rather. So baptism, and this might catch you off guard and just trust me, it's gonna it's not gonna sound so weird after I initially say it. But, baptism is a burial ceremony. Yes.
It's an outward expression of an inward, you know, what what you've done on the inside. Absolutely. But, baptism is a burial ceremony. Let me explain. *Romans-6*, it talks about it.
So go look in Romans-6 if you wanna get the biblical. So what it is is is if you had a loved 1, let's let's just say you had a loved 1 that's on their deathbed, and you you know their time is coming, you don't bury that person until you know that they're completely gone. If there's any chance of life whatsoever, any chance of them coming back whatsoever, then you don't bury them. Right? Because they might live.
But, as soon as you know that they're completely and totally gone, that's when you bury them. In the same way, baptism is showing that you realize that the old you is completely and totally gone. You're born again. You're made new in Him. So, when you go under the water, it's showing that you're buried with Christ.
You died with Christ 2000 years ago. The old you is gone. When you come up out of the water, it's showing that you have new life in Him. You've been resurrected with Him, and you are experiencing his life in your daily life, and it's wonderful, and it's awesome. You're born again, and that's what he says about you.
Isn't that awesome? Why? Because you've looked into his word, into Jesus, you've seen him, and no man can look into him and live. So you've given him your life, and he's given you his. I think it's awesome.
I think it's amazing. So, well pastor, all of that you're saying on how to hear his word and how to see his word, that's all like super theological, and and that's all cool and all, but practically, how does this help me in my daily life? Let's get there. Let's talk about it. Practically.
What does reading the Bible look like in my daily life? Like, how to how do I do this? In Psalms-1, it says to meditate on his *word* day and night. Blessed is the man who meditates on his on on his commands, on his law, day and night. It's not meditation like this Om meditation that you think about.
It's not like that, but it's an opening of your heart to him. It's a it's an agreeing with his word and praying through the word, and I want to show you what that looks like from my personal *life*. Like, yes, you can just sit and read a chapter of this book and and check it off of your list and be like, I got done with that today. But, that's once again just reading it as a history book to gain knowledge, and it's not about that. We don't read the Bible to know about God.
Once again, we read the Bible to know Him. So, in my personal I'll just give you an insight into my personal daily life what this looks like. I wake up early in the morning, because my kids love my attention. They love it, and they wake up really early, so I have to make up really really really early. And I just open up my journal and I begin to to write, and I have an online or I type out my journal, and I just say, yes, yesterday, God, thank you for, and begin to write out because it's good to have a thankful heart, and that just kind of begins a prayer or whatever.
And then, I ask God, would you open your word your word to me? I want to hear your voice. Show me, you know, I wanna have an open heart to what you wanna say. And then let's go back to 2 Timothy-3:16. I'll show you what this looks like for me.
*2 Timothy-3:16* says, all scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Now, God, would you show me what this means? Right? So, as I read it, all scripture Okay. Wait a second.
That's not talking. I'm just gonna stream of consciousness what I would be thinking or what I'm thinking as I'm going through this. Right? And praying, how I'm praying. So all scripture Now, that's not saying, God, that's not saying some scripture.
It's not saying only the scripture that I like, that I feel like is good for me, but if I don't agree with it or my life doesn't agree with it, I just set it aside. No, God. That's saying all scripture. So, Father, if there's any parts of my life that doesn't line up with all the Scripture, Lord, root it out because I wanna look like You, I wanna walk like You, Father, I wanna talk like You, because it says to imitate You in Ephesians-5:1, Father, help me. All Scripture is God breathed.
We talked about that when man was formed, you breathed into him. So this is and that is life, and this is life giving to me. Father, I pray that as I read this, I experience your life, because it says that you can that I can. All scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching. Father, make me teachable.
I want to be teachable. Lord, I I want to learn in the areas that I I want to learn. It says that that a wise man, Lord, is is teachable. A wise man takes correction. Father, help me to know in the areas where I think that I know it all.
Lord, and rip that away so that I can learn from you. Teach me through this. Is useful for teaching and rebuking. *God*, if there's any area where I'm too hard to be taught, would you send someone to rebuke me or would you yourself rebuke me? This is just me praying through scripture and correcting and training in righteousness.
*God, righteousness*. Lord, thank you for training me in righteousness. Righteousness means right standing with you. And I remember, Lord, we've been given your righteousness, so it's not mine, but based on what you've said about me, based on what you've done, I'm I'm I'm given your goodness. So, I'm in right standing with you, so I can stand right before you right now in confidence because you love me and you've forgiven me.
Not just me, that's you, anybody who's given their life to Jesus. So that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Now, I read that word servant, and this is what I did this morning, guys. The servant. Okay.
I think about servant, I also think about slave, and I Google them both. Right? A slave is someone Google says on a servant, but I already know a slave. A slave is someone who is forced into labor. They're not necessarily paid for it.
Right? They're forced for the time that the master wants them in in labor. But a servant is someone who chooses, Google said that this morning, someone who chooses to to work for their master, and there's a contract with agreed upon pay. Now, so that the servant of *God* may be thoroughly equipped, God, not only am I your friend, but I choose to be your servant for eternity, and I know that the pay, the benefits of that are immeasurably greater than I could ever ask, think, or imagine. Thank you, Father.
I give you my life here. May be thoroughly equipped for every good work. So, not just a little bit equipped for some good works, but thoroughly equipped for every good work. God, I I'm a pastor of a church and sometimes I feel ill equipped, but you said that I am thoroughly equipped for this good work and every other good work that you've called me to. Help me to trust you in that way.
I give you everything. That's how I read the Bible. Do I read every Sometimes, no. I I don't go that thorough every time. Sometimes, I just I I read a whole chapter, but I'm I'm looking for God to speak to me in that way because I want my heart open, because I want to become that truth.
I want it to become a part of me, because I wanna grow in my relationship with him like that. So that's kind of how I encourage you guys as you're reading the Bible, don't just read it for a story book, but read it to know Him. But then, also God speaks to you through the Bible. He kind of illuminates it. How does He do that?
What does that look like? Let me give you a practical example from my life. In February February, we had not yet moved. We moved in July 2017. So February, we hadn't moved yet to to begin to start this church.
But we knew that we would start we were starting it, and we had begun the training on what it takes to start a church. Right? And in that training, around that time, we were learning that we had to raise $200,000 right around, in order to buy all the stuff that you see to make it look like a church, and do all the marketing and advertisements. A lot of you you saw stuff on Facebook. Right?
That's There's a lot of money that went into that, and all those advertisement thing and things. Well, a pastor or someone that's going to start a church, they have the vision of what they need to do, but all the practical stuff, man, Arc trains us in that, which was amazing. And, they said, we gotta raise right at 200,000. And I'm like, I've never done anything like that before as far as raising that amount of money to start a church. That's crazy.
And so, this stress began to happen, like, how is that possible? How could I do that? You know, I don't like that. And this stress began to rip me to pieces for a few days. So this 1 day, I go to my wife, I say, hey, baby, I'm just stressed out.
I'm gonna go spend a little time with Jesus. Alright? Just pray for me. And I go and I lay on my bed. I'm laying on my bed, I'm looking up at the ceiling, and I'm praying, I'm like, God, stress, like this this sucks right now.
It it just does. There's no better way to put it. Stress is a cousin to fear and there's no fear in you. It's what your word says. So would you take this?
And I had the thought to continue reading in the Bible where I left off. So I opened up the Bible and I opened it up to where I had left off, which was in Lamentations of all places. I was in Lamentations-3, and I'll never forget this. As I'm reading, I get to verse 21 and things begin to just jump off the page at me. And it says, yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope.
*God*. I'm I'm starting to get excited as I'm reading this back then. Right? I remember the excitement like, I have hope. Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed for his compassions never fail.
Father, thank you that your love never fails me and I can have hope in you. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness. And then this is this is what I'm thinking as I'm reading last February. Okay. Your faithfulness, Father, your great is your faithfulness, so you are faithful.
I can have faith in the 1 who is faithful. You spoke this church into existence, so this is going to happen. This you're gonna make this happen. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion, therefore, will wait for him. I was like, portion?
What exactly does he mean there? So I got my phone out and I googled portion. Portion means future, future, inheritance. So, Lord, you are my future. You are my inheritance.
I will wait for you. That kinda didn't stick yet. The Lord is good to those whose hope is Him, to the 1 who seeks Him. It is good to "wait quietly", then it started to stick, for the salvation of the Lord. And I knew, it just jumped off the page, I knew that I was supposed to wait on Him.
I had I had been worried about what I was who I was supposed to ask, and all this kind of stuff, to raise finances as they were training me, and and I knew that I was supposed to wait on him and not say a word. So I I laid back. I said, alright God, you got this. You're faithful. I see what you're telling me in the word.
I will wait on you. I give this to you. I give you my stress instantly with stress left. Why? Because when God speaks and you respond, it's a big deal.
So I didn't say a *word* about anything, you know, raising money or anything like that. The next day, nothing happened. Thank God that it he didn't make me wait too long. 2 days later 2 days later, I I call a friend of mine who was planting a church in Detroit, just to ask for wisdom, because he had planted a church. Just to ask, hey, to learn from him, you know, because it's good to learn being teachable.
I call and I just ask for He said, Man, I'm glad you're calling. I just got back from a church planting conference and talking about the importance of churches planting churches, and I just want you to know, man, I believe in you, I believe in what God's told you, and we're going to support you guys monthly. I said, wait, what? It's exactly what God had told me. I began to tear up a little bit.
The next day, I get a call from a friend of mine who had planted a church in Jacksonville, and I had called him, you know, about a week before, and just prayed for him over the voicemail because he didn't answer. And he calls me back, he said, hey David, I've been thinking about you, man, I've been praying for you. I just want you to know I believe in you, I believe in what you're doing, and our church, we're gonna support you monthly. I said, what? The next day, I call my old pastor, another church in Jacksonville, and I call him and he heard about us planting a church and stuff, and I'm just asking him for wisdom because he had planted a church 11 years ago, 10 or 11 years ago, and he said, look, I just want you to know that we believe in you, and and we're having these events, you know, every night on a certain week, and we're gonna take offerings every night, and 1 of those nights, the whole offering is gonna go to your church.
3 nights in a row, God is faithful to what He speaks. "Isn't that amazing"? What's even crazier than that, not counting my salary, not counting worship leaders and the production because our we don't get paid by real church. God other churches, our sending church pays for me and pays for our production of media guy, and then an outside donor who's not even connected with real church pays for our worship leader. So, nobody's on staff here at real church.
Isn't that amazing? Everything goes Yeah. That's that's a God thing. Everything goes to making this happen. So so not those things.
Everything else that we raised, we raised in order to make all of this, like, start day 1, we we raised I think like a $160,000 or something like that, which is amazing. And, nobody that I asked gave us money. Everyone that I asked said no. Because, as a man, I fail sometimes and I forgot what he told me, and 6 months later, I'm doing my training, Art trains you to fundraise, and I'm doing my training, and everyone that I asked said no. But then, God would "wake people up miraculously" in the middle of the night, tell them to give to me, I get a call the next morning and they give me $10,000.
Why? Because God is faithful to carry out what He says even when we're not faithful. Isn't that amazing? It's not just with finances, it's with "every aspect of your life" He is faithful. He does what he says he'll do.
He's your healer. He's your provider. He's everything that you need. As you read his word, he speaks to you. He shows you who he is and what he's done.
And if he's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and if he's no respecter of persons, if he he he doesn't put someone up on a pedestal, if if if he doesn't show favoritism, well, then whatever he's done for them, he'll do for you. Whatever he's done for me, he'll do for you. You can trust him. Isn't that amazing?
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