Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

I haven't been with you for the last few weeks, and it is good to be back home.

When I last saw you, I was teaching and preaching from kind of a stream of stories in the scripture where God calls somebody in the scripture

by their name.

And I chose for us some scriptures where he calls them by their name twice.

And I was doing that because there are significant seasons that you and I will walk through where God will want

to get our attention for something that he's bringing us into. And so today, I think, is going to be

the funnest one of all. Now, I know that we've disrupted the flow of the series because I had to

go and minister in all kinds of wonderful places. And we did minister to over 100,000 people in Jesus' name over the two weeks of our tour.

But you know what?

There's nowhere that I can preach that feels just as good to me and as free to me as this pulpit right here at Elevation Church.

And although you may not remember the flow that I was in, I have been preparing this sermon

the whole time I've been gone, so I'm just excited to preach it today. Please stand at all of our

locations if you're seated seated and we'll stand for

the reading of the Word of God. And we'll pick up in Luke chapter 10. Thank you so much, team.

I appreciate it. Luke chapter 10, verse 38 through 42. Luke chapter 10 verse 38 through 42. The Bible says, as Jesus and his disciples were on their way,

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