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 fate. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

We're coming from a little bit of an unknown scripture.

This is not like stairway to heaven or a Led Zeppelin song that everybody knows.

This is a deep track from the book of Second Kings 13, 14 through 20.

Part A, I want to read it real quick for you.

It says, Now, Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died.

Jehoash, King of Israel, went down to see him and wept over him.

He uses this expression that was used when Elijah was taken up to heaven.

He was the prophet who preceded Elijah.

And he says, my father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel.

He didn't know what he would do as king if he didn't have the man of God giving guidance

and strategy.

And so he's weeping over an opportunity that is passing.

And Elisha, instead of giving him some sort of chicken soup for the kingly soul, work with me now, gives him a set of marching orders.

He gives him something to do.

And most of us, if we would do what we already knew, we could see victory

in our life. It's not a lack of knowledge a lot of times. It's a lack of courage or a lack of

conviction.

And so he understands something that he's got to get Jehoas, the king, to move out of apathy

and to own the outcome and fight for himself.

It's almost as if Elisha is saying, stop crying, man up.

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