Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. 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.

God is not against me, but he's in it with me, working through me, and fighting for me.

And it would seem like I would know that at my core

and never doubt it, but I was driving to the church to preach

this has been several months ago

it might have been you know

it might have been a particular Sunday where I felt my message was confusing and I

didn't know if I was going to be able to communicate it. Maybe I didn't sleep

good that night. I don't remember. I just remember pulling in thinking of all the

ways it could go wrong. You know you do that that sometimes, like you're driving up to something,

you're like, I'm probably going to blow it, these pants feel tight,

look at this, my hair is doing this thing,

it could be any little dumb thing

and you just start imagining all the ways it could go wrong.

Well, I was doing that about my sermon.

And as I pulled into the church, I thought,

wait a minute, I'm showing up today to help people to give them God's word to share with them what the

Lord says the best I know how and it won't be perfect and I'll miss some things and I'll mispronounce some things and I'll probably make a mess of some of it.

But do I not believe that God is for what I'm doing today, that he wants to help these people more than I do

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