Ran Out? He's Already There!

This week you watched a nation run out of almost everything. They ran out of song. They ran out of water. They ran out of bread. They ran out of the strength to hold their own arms up. And one man ran out of the ability to carry it all by himself. And every single time they hit the bottom of their own supply, God was already standing there, holding the thing they had just run out of. That's the whole week in one sentence. This wasn't a week about how strong Israel was. Tonight we gather up a whole week. Days 70 through 74, the wilderness road from the far shore of the Red Sea all the way to the mountain of God. Five days. Five places. Five places of freed people hit the end of themselves. They hit the end of their rope. And five times, God met them exactly where they'd run out of.com. It'll be up in the store. Love for you to get a copy, get one maybe for somebody who's run out of strength this week. And they need to be reminded who's already standing where they ran out. Now, today we went to church at Grace Community Topsoil and and uh first day in the new building. It was lovely to be with them. And uh somebody came up to me and said, you know, hey, I I gave my dad an elderly man, an infirm man. I gave my dad your book, and he loves it. He's just digging it in. So you never know. You never know. I put a lot of effort into it. I think you'll be able to see that when you read it. It's also very well made. Anyway, not for nothing. Good evening, Robbie and Tammy and uh Colleen and Susan and Linda and Miss Sharon and all the others. It's just a scrolling. Good to see you. I hope everybody can hear me well. Once we get started, we're gonna roll. Um, remember Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. And then we do the Sunday summation and deepening. And uh, so I hope that you'll be blessed by today. I hope you'll be blessed by today. There's there's a tough question for today. What does God do when your own strength finally gives out? Thank you, Miss Colleen. So let's go in, all in. Let's let's walk the let's walk the week back day by day because the road tells the story. Day 70, Exodus 15, the far shore. Good afternoon, Miss Nicole. Thank you for listening. So day 70, day 70. This is where we went back to on Monday this week, Exodus 15, the far shore. Israel walks through the sea on dry ground. Now we've heard this story. So many times we take it for granted. They walk through the sea on dry ground and they watch Pharaoh's army sink behind them. The very first thing they do isn't plan. It's sing. Moses and uh I just think it's it's fascinating. Moses and the whole camp sing the song of the sea. Specific, immediate, out loud. The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my Yeshua, my salvation. And Midiam takes a tambourine, and all the women follow with dancing. It's just incredible. And she sings the refrain right back the morning after the miracle. A delivered people named what God had done, specifically, publicly, before a single practical question got a chance to crowd it out. And then day 71, Exodus 15, 22 through 27, the bitter well. And here's the whiplash, right? It's only been three days. Three days since the tambourines and the singing, and now we're grumbling. They go into the wilderness of shore, and they find no water for three days. When they finally reach Mara, the water's too bitter to drink. Hello to uh all of the new listeners that I'm seeing pop up. Welcome, welcome. Uh one of our things is we're just nice to each other in the uh we're nice to each other in the chat, the live chat, so that's our big thing. I think it's a good thing. So they they find no water, and when they finally reach Mara, the water's too bitter to drink. Can you imagine? How you're thirsty. You're out of water. So so now the same the same mouth. I mean I get it. I look, I get it. We're very we're very quick to turn the praise down and off. And turn the complaining up. It's a it's a fast switch. And and in one sense, you can't be too hard on them. I mean, they're thirsty. They were singing, but now they're complaining. We we just can't throw rocks at them. It's put ourselves in those shoes. How often do we do it? But you know what the cool thing about it is, is God doesn't lecture them. He shows Moses a tree, Moshe, and Moshe throws it into the water, and the bitter turns sweet. And right there, at the site of the complaint, God reveals a name he had never used before. Aniadonai Rechha Rophecha Aniadonai Rophecha. I am the Lord your healer. Not at a mountaintop, at a bitter well. Then on to Elim, twelve springs, seventy palms, abundance waiting, just passed the test. And day seventy-two, Exodus sixteen, the bread from heaven, out into the wilderness of sin, and now it's food they've run out of. And again they grumble, even saying they'd rather have died in Egypt, where at least they ate bread until they were full. And God reigns bread from heaven. They wake to a fine, flake-like thing on the ground and ask, Manu, what is it? And that question becomes a name, Mana. God builds a test right into the bread. Gather only enough for today. Don't hoard it or it'll rot. But gather a double portion on the sixth day, because the seventh is Sabbath rest. Hello Metros. The seventh is Sabbath rest. We talked a lot about that, the importance of Shabbat, for many reasons. Listen, God was teaching a nation of former slaves to trust him one morning at a time. Can you imagine? Day 73, Exodus 17, the rock and the tired arms. On to Rephidim, no water again. And this time the quarrel is so sharp, Moses says they're almost ready to stone him. And God says, I will stand before you there on the rock. Strike it, and Moses strikes the rock, and water pours out for the whole nation. And then Amalek attacks, Joshua fights below, while Moshe, Moses, holds the staff of God up on the hill. And as long as his hands are up, Israel prevails, but his arms give out, because that's what arms do. So Adon and Hur or Hur sit him on a stone and they hold his hands up, one on each side, until sunset. And Moses names the altar Adonai Nisi. The Lord is my banner. And you know, sometimes we all need help. Things to help us, to hold us up. So I wasn't gonna do this, but I'm gonna. I put this shirt on to cover up one of my braces, because I couldn't find my TLSO brace, which is the one I desperately need. But I couldn't find it. I don't know where I put it. I know where I put it. It's in the last place where I put it. I didn't look there yet. Somebody I'm sure will say, Well, did you check the last place you put it? Well, no, I did not. So here, here is this crazy thing, and it goes all up here and all the way around and all the way down and all the way up. It's a wild-looking thing. But you know what? I need it. I need it because I can't hold myself up without it. So I know military injuries and blah blah blah. You don't hear my tale of woe. I'm just saying sometimes we need help. And sometimes that help comes from just regular everyday people around us that see us struggling. And we say, hey, I see you struggling, I want to help you. Or you just jump in and go, hey, I got you, I got you. But the flip side of that is what if you see somebody struggling and you don't help them? What happens? They may lose the war. The battle they're fighting, they may lose. Sometimes we watch people and we say we just don't want to get involved. Day 74. Exodus Exchodos Exchodos Shemot. The line that never ends. Today's message and the one that closes the week. Jethro, an outsider, a Midianite priest, watches Moshe or Moses sit as judge over the whole nation. He's alone. Moses is just sitting there alone, just the line is miles long.

And he is.

Everyone standing in line that never shortens. And he says the plain thing nobody else would. What you're doing isn't good. You're gonna wear yourself out. This is too heavy for you. You're not able to do it alone, man. And then he gives the remedy, which makes sense. Able men who fear God, sharing the load, small matters handled by others, only the hardest things come into Moses. And Moses, to his great credit, listens. Sometimes I'm a wee bit bullheaded. And sometimes I don't accept help. I don't like wearing my braces. I don't like using my walking aids. I don't like any of that. The miss culling tells me all the time, you better stop telling people. When people ask you, hey, how's it going? Great. Well, in my view, I am doing great compared. You know. But sometimes we don't give people the opportunity to help us. And sometimes we don't give people the help when we have the opportunity. So I want you to look at this, and I found this fascinating. Look at what happens when you lay all five days out side by side. First, I want you to notice the pattern is always the same. A freed people hits the end of their own supply, their own song, their own water, their own bread, their own strength, their own capacity, their rope. And at the exact point where they run dry, they run empty, God is already standing there with the thing they lack. And he doesn't wait at the finish line, he stands at the point of impact on the rock. Before Moshe, Moses ever strikes it. He's standing there. I want you to notice also, second, I want you to notice that God keeps revealing his names in the hard places. It's never the easy ones. He's Rophecha, your healer, at the bitter well. He's Nisi, your banner in the middle of the battle. He introduces the deepest parts of who he is at the exact spot you are failing. Not somewhere comfortable. Third, I want you to notice how fast the praise wore off. And notice that God met the grumbling with provision before he ever addressed the attitude. The tree went into the water before the lecture. The bread fell before the repentance. Grace ran ahead of correction every single time. Fourth, and this is the thread that kind of ties the whole week into one message. Not one of these problems was solved by trying harder. Israel couldn't sing sweeter to fix the water. Pardon moi. Anti-rabbit carrot. Appreciate that. I'm not here to argue or demean. I'm an atheist, a theist, and I'm hoping you guys are showing love to everyone. First of all, if you have ever listened before, you don't need to come in here and tell us to show love for everyone, because that's what we do. We, the USA, need Christianity to be about compassion and empathy again. Nationalism is destroying. First of all, Christian nationalism. You see how Antarabbit Carrot, the atheist, comes in. Clearly, a faith-based, well, do you, do you? He says, I love every one of you. Sure you do. He didn't say Christian nationalism together. He said nationalism after he talked about Christianity, being about compassion and empathy again. Christianity, true Christianity, true followers of the way, are the most compassionate and loving people you will ever find on the earth. They're the most generous. Always. Always. So I think there are certain segments of people that need to stop killing people for saying things they don't like. And there are certain segments of people that need to stop trying to rip Israel and the people of Israel, the people of the book, the people of the land, and the land of the people gifted by God. The title is held by God. And what God gives, he doesn't take away. And of course, I say this, and people are shocked when I say it. And usually I say it to people who are believers. And I say, listen, if you don't believe in Israel, you don't believe in God. Yeah, I know. I saw that you ran out of letters. I appreciate that. Amen. Christian nationalism. Perhaps sometime I'll do an episode. Oh, wait! I've already done like eight of them on Christian nationalism and what it isn't and what it is. But now, see, they put those two words together, and now it's a pejorative. Ooh, Christian nationalism. That's got to be bad. All right. Another time. Here's the thing: Israel couldn't sing sweeter to fix the water. Moses couldn't grip the staff tighter. In the original, it calls it a tree, but very often that's the euphemism for what, you know, obviously it was made from a tree, made from a branch. Sometimes it says branch, sometimes it says tree, and then sometimes it says staff. But the fact of it is, is in the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context, they would use tree. Anyway, so Moses couldn't grip the staff tighter to keep his arms up. I don't know if you've ever tried it. It's super hard. It's super hard. Just your arms and a staff. Look, he couldn't will himself to carry the whole nation alone. We just finished watching the World Cup literally right before uh we came in here. We looked for the other brace and then to no avail. And then I came in here and boop, hit live. Um, they were just out of gas. I played soccer, um and it's a very hard sport. People just don't realize how much running you're doing. The field is 125 yards long, 75 yards wide. It is massive. It's hard. They were completely out of, completely out of gas. You can doubt my love for people if you wish. I grew up in the faith, my favorite person ever being my devout grandmother. I was just being candid. I appreciate that. I need you guys to win against this hatred. I don't think we're losing against the hatred. We have always been about love. Always. There are some people that don't understand. I'm a follower of the way. I don't refer to myself as a Christian. I refer to myself as a follower of the way. Yeshua is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but through him. So I'm a follower of the way. That's what they were called at that time. So I get that you don't believe in God, and that's okay. It's okay. God believes in you. Um it the scripture says at the point of time every knee will bow. Everyone will acknowledge that he is God, the God. I wish you would before that time that comes that we don't even know when it'll be here. We have no, listen, what's happened to me, I've been at the edge of death and died. Could have never predicted it. Never in a million years. So I I gave the example of the soccer or football players that they can't will themselves. At a certain point, you just can't anymore. Your legs won't move. Your lungs are blasted. There are just, you're just there's so much lactic acid running through your body. You just can't move. And so your body cramps up. And and Moses couldn't do it. He was an old man. Every answer this week came from outside. Each of these situations came from outside their strength. Their own strength. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? So it's a very good comment. Anna Rabbit Carrot says, um, I agree, you've always been about love. Your voice is being drowned out by design, but that design is quite effective with social media and politics. Amen. That's why I'm doing what I'm doing here. I'm going to redeem this space, this little tiny corner of the internet, this little tiny corner of social media for the Lord. Appreciate it. Hey, thanks for coming. Appreciate you listening. Come back and listen anytime. So a tree God showed them, the bread God rained down, a rock God Himself stood on, two men on either side, wise counsel from an outsider. If you put the whole week together, and it says this the wilderness is where a delivered people learn that their own strength was never going to be enough. And that it was never supposed to be. Because God intended at every dry place to be the strength that they ran out of. I have a buddy of mine, he has gone on to his reward. But he uh when he learned of being terminally ill, he didn't have a whole lot of time. And um he said, he said, uh, you know, I well know candidly. How you doing? What can I do for you? How what can I do to help you? Is there anything I can do to help you? Of course I'm praying for you for the passing to be peaceful and smooth. Um how are you? And he said, I've never been closer to God. He said, I know this sounds crazy because it's literal and figurative. I've never been closer to God than I am now. Yes, I'm in terrible pain, but soon that pain will be over for all of eternity. And I'll see his face. I'll meet the Redeemer, and for all of eternity, I will sing his praises, and I have no doubt that he is. So here's where the whole week gets personal because you've lived this exact road, probably more than once. Come on, let's be honest. You've had your far ashore, a real deliverance. You've had something that broke open and you knew who did it, and you meant every word of the praise. You weren't performing. You sang it out loud like Miriam, with a tambourine in her hand. And then faster than you'd like to admit, something small went bitter. Three days, that's all it took for them. Three days from tambourines to grumbling at a well. I have to ask, listen, it's like I said, it's easy for us to throw rocks. Have you ever been starving? Have you ever been so thirsty? You barely couldn't talk or breathe. It hurt to breathe. Try being three days. Three days. I get it. I have empathy for them. I don't know if you've ever read through scripture or you've ever sat through teaching. I don't know if anybody ever said, hey, don't be so hard on them, but I'm telling you, don't be so hard on them. They're but for the grace of God go we. Look, if you're honest, yours was about three days too. The same mouth that praised him on Sunday was complaining by Wednesday, maybe by Sunday afternoon. And somewhere in there you started wondering, where did the song go? Where did the praise go? And whether you'd ever really meant it at all. And I want you to hear me on this. That's not proof your faith wasn't real. It's proof you're human. Exactly like two million people who watched a sea split open and then were complaining about drinking water by the weekend. The praise wearing off doesn't cancel the deliverance, just tells you the truth about how quickly a rescued person forgets. I want you to notice something too about Mara that's easy to miss. And the text puts it in the very next verse. The abundance was one short stretch of road past the bitter place. Oh, you were so close to your deliverance. You were right there. You were right there. But they didn't know that standing at Marah, they didn't know that. They didn't know that standing at Marah. All they could see was water that they couldn't drink. You've stood there. You've stood at this bitter thing, just convinced, convinced. This was the whole landscape now. Convinced it was going to taste like this from here on out. How many times have you decided at Mara that God had run out of good when Elim was just one more day up the road? How many times have you said, Man, it's hopeless? And deliverance was right there, right around the corner. The bitter place is real. It just isn't the destination, it's a stop. And then there's the bread. And I think this is the day that presses hardest on people like us. God gave them exactly enough, one day at a time. Can you imagine? He built the test right into the bread. Because you could you could only gather. You could you could only gather one day at a time. You could only gather today's portion. Are you listening? You could only gather enough for today. Try to keep some back for tomorrow. And you wake up to rot and worms. God wasn't being stingy. He was retraining slaves. Teaching people who had never had security to trust a God who provides every single morning without fail. And we hate that. We want the year's supply in the pantry. We want the number in the account that means we won't have to trust anybody, including him. We call it wisdom, and sometimes it is. But sometimes it's just fear wearing a respectable coat. Sometimes the stockpiling isn't stewardship at all. It's a quiet way of saying, I don't believe there'll be bread on the ground tomorrow. So ask it honestly. What are you hoarding? Because you don't trust him for tomorrow's portion. Come on. It's a real question, friends. It's a real question. What are you hoarding? What are you scooping up into piles? Because you don't trust God for tomorrow's portion. Look, I'm not saying don't pray. I'm not saying don't plan. I'm not saying don't put some things up in your cupboard. I'm all for that. I believe in being prepared. But that's not what we're talking about here. It's not euphemistic. It actually happened. Enough bread for one day, because they had to learn the lesson. How else will they learn it? What are you? You. You're a real person. You're living real life. What are you hoarding because you don't trust him for tomorrow's portion? What have you already tried to keep back that's already going bad in your hands? God never promised you a warehouse. I say it all the time. Being a follower of the way is not easy. You place your faith in Christ, it's not an easy path. But I'd never choose a different one anymore. God didn't promise you a warehouse. He promised you a morning. And then there's the hill. You know the one. You know that one. Arms shaking under something you've been holding up far too long. Maybe it's a marriage. Maybe it's a parent who's failing. Maybe it's a job you just can't quit. Hey, look, maybe it's a prognosis that you were not anticipating. And the remainder of your days are going to be very difficult. And you turn your head and you look left and right, forward and back, and you see people you love, and you wish they would just understand. Why don't you place your faith in Christ?

Maybe it's a secret. You just don't know how to get through it.

Maybe it's a hurt habit or hang up. Maybe it's a child you're praying for who doesn't know how hard you're praying for them. You keep telling yourself, willpower. Willpower will get me through. It'll get me to sunset. Because that's what you've always done. And you know what? Once or twice it's worked before. And your arms have always come back down eventually. But here's what Exodus 17 says without apology. His arms gave out, not because he lacked faith, but because it wasn't, it wasn't even because he was weak. It's because that's what arms do. They give out. Human strength has a bottom. And Moses found his and God let him find it. And then two men sat him down and held his hands up until the sun went down and the battle was won. I want you to feel how humiliating that must have been. Can you imagine? Have you ever been there? I just gotta make it till the sun goes down. I want you to feel how humiliating that must have been. I want you to feel it. Shut off all distractions, whatever's distracting you right now. I want you to put your mind, I want you to put your mind as though you were Moses. The weight of a nation is on your shoulders. You have led them through so much. And now your arms are falling, and your people are dying on the battlefield, and everything you're trying to do. You just can't keep them raised. The man who faced Pharaoh. The man who lifted his staff over the sea, sitting on a rock while somebody else does the holding up for him. Everything in you resists that. And you know it. Because letting somebody hold your arms means letting them see that your arms gave out. That's the actual cost. Not the help, the being seen. And maybe you haven't been on the hill. Maybe you've been in the chair. At the front of a line that never gets shorter. Everybody needs a decision from you. Everybody's asking, what do I do? What do we do?

Everything runs through you. And you are exhausted.

And underneath it, there's a belief you'd never say out loud. The belief that nobody else can do it right. That if I let go, this whole thing falls apart. That being needed this much is what makes you valuable. So you sit there morning to evening while the line stretches out past where you can see. And you call it faithfulness, and to you it is. Because you won't allow yourself to see any other way. But then Jethro shows up. He's an outsider. He's a Midianite priest. He's not even part of this community. He's not part of the covenant. He's not part of the story. And yet he's the one who says the plain thing nobody inside the camp would say. What you're doing isn't good. You're going to wear yourself out. This is too heavy for you. You can't do it alone. And that's the sentence you don't want to hear. And it usually comes from somebody you didn't want to hear it from. Not the elder, not the mentor, the in-law, the coworker, the friend who isn't even where you are spiritually. Saying the truest thing anybody said to you in the year. You know, I had a friend of mine. He he confronted something because it was put in front of him. And it made me realize, it made me realize something very powerful. And it humbled me. Just him telling the story, it humbled me. He said one time he was at his workplace. And he was in the lunchroom, the cafeteria, and he was in the midst of a massive struggle. And it was huge, it was big. He told me what it was. I said, Oh, my lands. He was talking to another guy at his table. And after what seemed like 20 or 30 minutes of, it's hopeless. I don't know what I'm gonna do, wringing his hands. The guy leans over and he said, I didn't really know the guy. I knew of him, but I didn't know him, know him. I didn't know his name. If he didn't have a name tag on him, I wouldn't have known who he was. He was a coworker, worked at the same place. And he leans over and he goes, Hey, aren't you the Christian? That's exactly how he labeled him. Aren't you the Christian? He goes, Yeah. He goes, You're all the time talking about your faith. Isn't this where the faith is supposed to be applied? I mean, I don't believe in God, but you're all the time talking about him. Kojun B5K, if you could, yeah, put in there uh what your uh what you need prayer for, and actually true wordfaithforlife.com, true wordfaithforlife.com, contact the little contact button, leave me a message. I promise you I'll respond. I've never not responded. If as soon as I get the message, I respond. And then we'll connect. If it's not something you're embarrassed of, put here, something you shouldn't put here in public, because remember how many ever people watch this, they're gonna see it. Uh, but if it's if it's kosher to put here, then feel free, and we'll all pray for you. It was a coworker, a non-believer, like Anna Rabbit Carrot. A non-believer said, Hey Christians, where's all the love? Where's all the compassion? This coworker speaks up and he says, I thought you were a person of faith. My friend said it was like he got hit in the chest with a sledgehammer. He said he was immediately embarrassed. And he goes, Well, I am. But this time I'm in the middle of it. And it's a bad situation. And he goes, Isn't that when faith is supposed to be of the greatest benefit? The truest thing anybody said in that whole situation. Don't let that happen to you. Look, here's what makes Moses great in that chapter. I love this chapter. And trust me, the pace is gonna pick up. You're gonna have this is um, these are formative, these are foundational because so many people blow off our Jewish heritage, our Hebrew heritage. And I don't want to do that. I want you to understand from whence we come. You can't know if you don't know history, if you don't know your faith history, oh my lands. Deep and wide, I'm building it deep and wide, and then as the pace picks up, you'll notice it's gonna pick up. Do I think we'll be finished in a year? If I'm a betting person, I'm not betting on it, but it'll be good. Listen, Moses wasn't great because he was strong. He was great because he listened, he heard the correction, and he changed how he worked. And the man who talked with God face to face took advice from his father-in-law, and he didn't argue with him. So here's what this week's been quietly saying to you the whole time. The running out isn't the failure. The running out is the classroom. You'd never have learned that God's your healer if the water had never gone bitter. You'd never have learned he's your banner if there had been no battle. You'd never have learned to gather tomorrow's trust if the bread hadn't run out every single night. And you'll never learn to let Aaron and Hor hold your arms or let the right people carry part of the line until you finally admit out loud that your own strength has given out. The wilderness isn't God abandoning you. The wilderness is God teaching you at every dry place that He is the strength you don't have. So the honest question tonight isn't whether your strength will run out because it will, because it is designed to. The question is what you'll do when it does. Will you keep gripping the staff alone until your arms drop and then call it? Faithfulness? Will you keep hoarding what has already begun to rot? Will you keep sitting in the chair because being needed feels like being loved? Or will you finally let the God, who has been standing in every dry place all week, be the strength you ran out of? Oh, let me tell you, Yeshua is in the text. Every place Israel ran dry this week. Look who was already standing there. They sang that God had become their Yeshua, their salvation on the far shore, a word that would one day be a name, and John sees that same song still being sung beside a sea of glass on the other side of eternity. The song of Moses and of the Lamb. Et Mirah, a tree thrown into a bitter water, made it sweet. And the Apostle Paul tells us Yeshua, Jesus, became a curse for us. He hung upon a tree, thrown into the bitterest thing that ever existed to make it drinkable. The bread fell from heaven every morning, and Yeshua stood up and said, I am the bread of life. The true bread the manna was only pointing at. The rock was struck and water poured out, and Paul says plainly, That rock was Christ, struck once so living water could flow to everyone dying of thirst. And Moses on a hill, arms held up by others, while a battle raged below. This is a picture of the one who always lives to make intercession, holding his arms, holding his hands up for us. Except his strength never runs out. And it never needs Aaron and Ur. Every place Israel ran out this week, God was already standing there, holding what they lacked. And every one of those provisions had a face and a name. And the name was Yeshua, the strength we run out of, standing at every dry place we will ever reach. He is the song. He's the tree. He's the bread. He is the rock and the hands that never drop whatever you ran out of this week. He was already staying there. Right where it ran dry. You say I want to, I want a way. I want a way to obey. I I I just tell me how to do it. Tell me what my next steps are. First, name the place you ran out. Listen, this ain't gonna be easy. There's nothing no part of this is gonna be easy. You say, Well, I want concrete obedience, I want to know how to do it right. Okay. This is the not easy part. Name the place you ran out of this week. You you you just ran out. You ran out of juice, you ran out of energy, you ran out of your faith. Ran out. You can say it. God isn't shocked or appalled. You ran out of song, you ran out of patience, you ran out of provision, strength, capacity, and then I want you to name it honestly instead of pretending you didn't. Second, I want you to look back and find where God was already standing there with what you lacked and thank him specifically for meeting you right where you needed, but before you'd earned it. Third, I want you to name those people, your Aaron and your Hur, or the line that you've been carrying alone. Everybody's problems, everybody's, it's all falls to you, does it? And this week, actually let somebody else hold up your arms. And maybe, maybe you need to hold some arms up. Which were you this week? I have for you tonight a challenge and a choice. But I have to ask, which one were you? The singer whose praise wore off? The one grumbling at a bitter well, the arms shaking on a hill, or the one carrying the whole line alone? Which were you? Which are you? And where looking back was God already standing with exactly what you'd run out of? Here's the choice tonight. Go ahead, keep measuring your faith by how long your own strength holds out. Go ahead, let me know how that works out for you. Or trust that same God, the same God who stood on the rock, sweetened the water, and rained the bread. And he held up tired arms. Held up tired arms. That same God. He's standing at whatever dry place you're walking toward next. I want you to pray with me, Father, in the name of Yeshua, your son. Thank you that you stand at every dry place before we ever reach it, holding the very thing we're about to run out of. Thank you that you met a grumbling people with a tree, with bread, with water from a rock, with hands to hold up other hands, and that you still meet us the same way. Father, for every everyone who ran out of strength this week and thought they thought that meant that they failed. Father, I ask that you show them that you were standing there the whole time, and that you are the strength that they don't have. In the matchless name of your son, Yeshua. Amen. Listen, maybe the place you ran out of this week isn't water or strength at all. Maybe it's the strength to carry your own life, and you've never once let him be the strength that you don't have. Listen, you you can keep gritting it out on your own if you want. But I'm saying to you, I'm I'm offering you this invitation. Instead of pushing him away, invite him in. I'm going to ask you to pray this with me sincerely. Pray it with me now. Let's handle this right here, right now. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. Father, forgive me. Fill me, lead me, make me new. I'm yours. My life is yours. In your name. Amen. Come on. If you just prayed that, welcome to the family. It's awesome. Go to true wordfaithforlife.com slash contact or just hit the contact button on the top and let us know. If you have questions, I can help you. I'm happy to help you. Kind of what I live for. Also, if this is your first time listening with us, we've been walking through scripture chronologically since Genesis. We started at day one. And so what I I would like for you to do, if you listen to Spotify or listen any of the audio podcasts at all, 100%. We're on all of them. True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean S-H-A-W-N. We're there. Usually about two hours after each episode, the audio is fixed and put in there. And you know, I mean it's um it is look it's it's free. You can also go to TrueWord Faith for Life with Dr. Sean or Truebord FaithforLife.com and click on episodes, and usually about two hours after the episode is in two. I have to do some editing and things to make it okay to be played on audio-only podcasts. But and I cut out a bunch of stuff, and that takes a little bit of time. Anyway, the point is the point is this is that I I would love for you to do that, and then you can come back every day, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. if you can't do it. Um I I would love for you to listen on playback and then click, you know, click on subscribe, click on like, click on all that stuff, click on the little bell, all notifications. You have no idea how important it is. So tomorrow, I think we're gonna be climbing the mountain into Exodus 19. I don't think you want to miss that. We have we have some folks that listen to us literally as they're laying in bed, going to bed, because the country that they're in, the times when they're in, it's they've worked all day and they're going to bed. And then we have another dear lady, actually, a couple of people I found out, that wake up at four in the morning and listen live. They could listen on playback, but they choose to listen live. It blows my mind. I'm touched by it. I have listen, I you won't talk about humbling. Listen, a song on a far shore, a tree in the bitter water, bread on the morning ground, water from a struck rock, two hands held up until the sun went down. Five places of free people ran dry, and at every one of them, God was already standing there, holding what they'd lost. Whatever you've run out of this week, he was there before you were. If you know somebody that they've run out of strength this week, and they think this that it's the end of their story, it's the end of them, send them this episode. Tell them God was already standing right where you ran dry. I know this has been a little bit of a choppy episode. To some degree, um, I make a conscious choice to either address certain things in the chat or not to. Um, sometimes I don't see them, unfortunately, until afterwards, because sometimes the chat is just moving. It's a scrolling ticker for me. Um, and so, you know, I apologize for that. Uh, hope that you are able to stick with me. And um, it's important. It's important. I want you to also pray, pray for uh Cojan B5K. We don't know what his need is. Also pray for Annie Rabbit Carrot, he's the atheist, very polite. Pray for him. It's um that's our duty. That's our duty. Now, I want you to know I pray for each and every one of you every day. And I I want you to understand what I'm about to do, what this actually is. I don't want it to be wrote. I don't want it to be just another thing, words. I want you to receive it in the in the vein that it is intended, and that it is prayed. Receive this in the heavenly name, and in Leshon Hakodesh, the language of God. I'm gonna speak it in Hebrew, and then I'm gonna translate it. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace until you join us again Mondays through Fridays, 7 a.m. and Sundays at 6 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Until then. Shalom Bishem Yeshua, Malachim.