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.

The scripture I want to use for this series as a window into the principles that I believe

God wants to teach us is in 2 Kings 13.

I don't know if you've ever heard this Bible story.

It's a little bit obscure, but sometimes it's in the stuff that you skip over in the Bible

that God can speak to you in a fresh way because you don't

think that you know it already. And this would be a little story that I bet a lot of us have

never really studied. And it's going to give us, as I said, a window into the way God works

in our lives over the next few weeks. And I'm excited about it. I preached this passage in the year

2013 around the world. I never preached it in our church. And I'm glad I didn't because when

I was preaching it in other places, I was skimming the surface. But as I've been studying it,

I've been seeing some things that are very significant and relevant to our lives and the season that we're in and the opportunities that God is calling us to seize.

So I want to share this scripture with you in 2nd Kings 13, verse 14.

Rock Hill, y'all doing okay today?

Matthews.

I saw our university city location, Lake Norman, Melbourne, Florida, Roanoke,

Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Toronto, Canada, Uptown, Charlotte, Gaston County,

Concord, Blakeney, and Ballanty.

We had a full house at Valentine, and when I say full house, I don't just mean no empty seats.

I mean, this place is full of expectation.

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