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.

Yo, I'm at Elevation Church!

I know y'all know y'all how good you have it.

But sometimes you can get so close to something that you take it for granted.

And you're like, oh, this is church every Sunday.

And you have no idea how blessed you are.

People don't get to walk into places like this all over the world every Sunday.

You are the favored of the Lord. Somebody say amen. And one of the reason why God favors you the way that he does is because of the phenomenal leadership that God has given you. And Pastor Stephen and

Pastor Holly, come on. Can you put your hands to get, come on with

these golf claps, can you honor?

If you know anything about us, preachers, we're a little extra, and I was thinking about

Pastor Stephen, and us pastors, we have these terms that we use, and we kind of delegate him

for only a few type of people.

But we'll say certain people are generals of the faith.

Like if you ever talk people about talking about like Billy Graham or whatever, generals of the faith.

And when you think about a general, they're the one that gives the orders for the army to march out.

And I don't know if y'all notice, and I probably

shouldn't say this from a platform, but there are bootleg elevation churches all over the world

following what you guys do here. And it's not copycat. It's because God is giving you a general

that is setting the pace for the kingdom of God. And we are grateful, grateful, grateful. I'm not just saying

this. Pastor Holly is one of my favorite preachers on the planet. Come on out. A lot of times when you think

about preachers, you're like, oh, are they funny? You know, love how they tell stories or break down

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