Here's Your Sign - Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from

Lifehouse Church. Good morning. Good morning.

Welcome to Lifehouse. It is good to have you

here. Turn to somebody. Give them a high five.

Do it right now. Tell them it's good to see you

in church this morning. Give them a high five.

Yeah, awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

for doing that. Hey, just want to say a little

something. I'm not going to go the whole way

around, but you know what I love? Those boxes

over there are exactly what we celebrate over

here. These green balls are invitation balls.

If you're new with us, if we invite somebody

to the house of God, we put their name on there

or initials and a date on there. And we do that

so we can pray over that invitation because we

want people to come into the kingdom of God.

That is doing the same thing that these are doing

right over here. Those are invitations that go

out. And if you don't know anything about Operation

Christmas Child, when those boxes arrive, they

give the children the boxes, but they share the

message of Jesus Christ simultaneously while

they're doing that. And it's an invitation. Years

ago, we had Layla Allison here. She was a recipient

of one of those shoeboxes when she was a child.

She ended up as a child going through the Bosnian

conflict, the civil war that took place there.

An amazing testimony. And we still hear from

her from time to time. She's in Florida now.

But we hear the stories of what those boxes do.

Same thing. So here's what we're going to do.

We're going to start off praying over these,

and you already prayed over those, all right?

These are our invitations. These are going out

across the globe. If you bow your heads. Father,

we thank you for this day. I thank you for the

opportunity to come in your house, to hear your

word, Lord, to share. And God, we pray over these

invitations this morning. We're believing for

those who don't know you and those who are far

from you that they'll come into the kingdom.

And Lord, God, as the shoeboxes go out and the

invitations go out with these green balls, Lord,

God, Spirit of God, just go ahead. Go forward.

Go before us and minister to hearts and lives

in preparation. We thank you in Jesus' name.

And everybody say it together. Amen. Amen. Well,

it is good to be in God's house. And I'm going

to start off just saying something. I'm going

to make a little bit of an assumption, which

is a terrible idea most of the time, right? But

I'm going to assume this. Many of you probably

are a lot like me in the notion that you don't

believe everything that you read or see online.

Can I assume that this morning? Amen. I got a

witness. Thank you. All right? Right? We don't

believe everything we see or what we read online.

As a matter of fact, a little bit of a conversation

went on this morning about AI, right? Artificial

intelligence. And it's hard to differentiate

when you're looking online what's generated and

what's real. What is fact? What is fiction? What's

authentic? What isn't authentic? I read a little

survey. In 2024, they took a survey. 84 % participants

of people that create content online admitted

to using AI to generate a lot of their material,

right? It's either compiled or made up or a compilation

of different things in the viewing. And now more

than ever, we need to be a people who are aware

and fact -checking things. Amen? It's true. We

need to verify what we're reading. We need to

verify what we're watching. We need to seek out

evidence and proof of authenticity. You need

to listen to testimonials and reviews, test and

validate, do our homework, right? Do all these

things. Seek out signs and evidence of what's

truth and really what isn't. Make sure it's real.

And I got pulled into the whole online thing

a little bit this summer. This summer I was,

I like to do. yard stuff. I like to work out

in the yard, work with my hands. It's fun to

do, and it's very enjoyable. And I was on a mission

to kill the weeds. in my mulch beds, right? Amen,

right? Come on, some of you out there, you yard

warriors are out there. And I saw this thing

online where you mix up your own concoction to

kill weeds, right? It's supposed to not have

all the chemicals in. Anybody read all that online,

right? White vinegar, you mix white vinegar.

Some of you are writing right now. White vinegar.

So I started, I bought a bunch of gallons of

white vinegar. I got a bunch of salt out of the

kitchen. I went and raided the kitchen, my wife's

kitchen. because I don't cook, I raided her kitchen,

took out everything I could salt -wise, right,

and got a little bit of dish soap, and I started

making this concoction that's supposed to kill

weeds. And I can, in fact, verify, right, because

we need to know, we need to test. I can verify

that it does kill the weeds, but it doesn't always

kill the roots, just so you know. All right,

it took multiple applications before I actually

killed the plant off. And you say, well, what's

that got to do with anything? Most of us like

some kind of tangible evidence. of what we're

reading and what we're seeing. None of us want

to play the fool, right? None of us want to be

labeled as gullible or ignorant in any kind of

way. We want verification. We want facts of what's

true. And this even applies to God's word. It

does. It applies to God. It'd be amazing if I

could just read the word of God one time to you.

Just get up here and preach and speak the word

of God one time to you, and your faith would

be eternally fixed. Your faith would be up here.

You'd believe God for anything, and you'd just

keep moving along, right? And all you had to

do is hear it one time, right? Day after day,

you'd have no doubt in your head and in your

heart. I just preached a message and shazam,

you'd all be warriors of faith. Wouldn't that

be awesome, right? But how many know that's not

really the reality of it? It really isn't, right?

It's not. We have moments of great faith sometimes.

We have seasons of great faith. We even walk

in faith. But sometimes, say sometimes, sometimes

we need some tangible evidence to keep our faith

moving and strong. Jesus dying on the cross,

raising from the grave on the third day, right?

Paying the price for our sin, for my sin, for

your sin, you know, going and ascending into

heaven and one day coming back to return to take

us back should be enough. It should be, but it

honestly isn't completely. And Jesus himself

knew this. He knew it would not be completely

true for us just to read the written word of

God and experience nothing else. He knew that.

He knew that it would take the word of God, the

word of God. plus the Holy Spirit. When he left,

he sent back the Holy Spirit to live with inside

of every believer. It would take the word of

God. It would take the presence of God, the Holy

Spirit, and it would be active and alive in our

lives, counseling us. How many know that the

Holy Spirit is the counselor, right? He's the

one who comes. He's the paraclete. He's the advocate

for us. And occasionally, on occasion, you would

need to witness God's work and power in a tangible

way. You really would. If you got your Bibles

this morning, I want you to turn to John chapter

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2. We're going into John chapter 2. We were in

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John chapter 1 last week. Once in a while, sometimes

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you're going to need a sign, you're going to

need a wonder, and you might even need a miracle.

John chapter 2 verse 1, it says this. On the

John 2:1

third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee,

and the mother of Jesus was there. Both Jesus

and his disciples were invited to the wedding.

And when they ran out of wine, the mother of

Jesus said to him, they have no wine. Jesus said

to her, woman, what does your concern have to

do with me? My hour has not yet come. His mother

said to his servants, whatever he says to you

to do, do it. Now there were six water pots of

stone, according to the manner of purification

of the Jews, containing 20 to 30 gallons of water.

Jesus said to them, Fill the water pots with

water. And they filled them to the brim, up to

the brim, and said to them, and he said to them,

draw some out now, take it to the master of the

feast, and they took it. And when the master

of the feast had tasted the water that was made

wine and did not know where it came from, but

the servants who had drawn it, the water knew.

The master of the feast called the bridegroom,

and he said to him, Every man at the beginning

sets out the good wine, and when the guests have

well drunken, then the inferior. You have kept

the good wine until now. This beginning of signs,

say signs. This beginning of signs Jesus did

in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory,

and his disciples believed in him. After this

he went down to Capernaum, he, his mother, his

brothers, and his disciples, and they did not

stay there many days. I want you to get the picture.

I want you to see the scene this morning. Jesus,

his mom, right, his mother, Mary, and his 12

disciples. Now, this is early on in Jesus' public

ministry. This is early on when he gathers the

12 disciples. So it's Jesus, his mom, and the

12 disciples that he has, the 12 apprentices

that he's training. They all get invited to a

wedding, and they go to the wedding. Now, you've

got to understand something about the 12 that

are with him. They've not walked with Jesus very

long at this point. They've seen him teach. They've

seen him preach. They've seen him give invitation.

As a matter of fact, they accepted the invitation

to come and follow him as a rabbi, as a teacher.

But they didn't fully understand who was sitting

in front of them at this wedding. And in their

hearts and lives, they might have believed that

this was the rabbi. A great rabbi to follow.

And they might even had a hint that this was

the prophesied Messiah, that this was the son

of God, that this could be the one. Jesus might

be the one. They were probably sitting there

because they were new with all this, trying to

read the situation, right? I don't know. I can't

ask him. Trying to figure this out, what's really

happening. But they're about to experience a

sign. Turn to somebody right now and say, you

need a sign. You need a sign. Come on. Tell them

you need a sign. We like signs, people, right?

We like to know whether we're supposed to go

left. We like an arrow that goes left. We like

to know if something's pointing right. We like

to know if it's a stop, right? Or go ahead and

proceed with caution or children at play or whatever

it is. We like a sign. We like a sign. And the

wedding is progressing, and they're enjoying

the reception. And all of a sudden, in the middle

of this, Jesus' mom presses in and comes with

some pressing wedding news. She breaks into the

conversation, and she says, Jesus, we've run

out of wine. And I love Jesus' response, right?

At first, he sounds like every guy I know, right?

Not my problem, mom. Because Jesus said to her,

woman, what does your concern have to do with

me? At first glance, it looks like that, right?

But then he throws in something a bit prophetic.

He says, but my hour has not yet come. Jesus

throws in this prophetic phrase. My hour has

not come. What hour? He was referring to him

revealing himself as the Messiah, as the Son

of God. As a remedy for all of mankind's sin.

To conquer death, hell, and the grave. The one

who would have power over all things. And the

one whose word would heal. The one whose word

would control nature itself. That's what he was

saying to her. Woman, my hour's not yet come.

I'm not quite there. But somehow, Jesus' mom,

she knows. How many know mama knows? Come on.

She knows because she intuitively, she doesn't

say another word. She intuitively turns to the

servant. She said, whatever he says to do, do

it. She knows something big is about to go down.

She knows her son. And Jesus tells these servants

to go get six water pots that are sitting there.

I just imagined them in ancient Israel. They

were probably like these big crock water pots,

right? And they hold 20 to 30 gallons, somewhere

between 120 to 180 gallons of water. And he says,

fill them with water. And the servants fill them

with water. And before they can take a sample

of this to the master of the feast, right? The

wedding coordinator for all the rest of us, right?

Before they can do that, Jesus instantly changes

the water into wine. And they take a sip, they

take a cup of this wine to the master of the

feast. And he says, wait a minute, this is all

messed up. Normally they put the good stuff out

first. They've waited till now, right? Till it's

further in the wedding. He goes to the groom

and says this. I can imagine the groom, he was

probably completely confused of what was going

on. But after reading this account, you got to

ask yourself, why? Why would Jesus do his first

public ministry, his miracle, in front of a newly

appointed apprentices at this private wedding?

Why would his first miracle be here? Because

Jesus knew something. He knew that these newly

recruited disciples would need a sign. They would

need something. They would need something that

would help them understand who he actually is,

that he's not just a rabbi, but that he's the

son of God. They needed a day that they would

never, ever, ever, ever forget. They needed a

sign. They needed something from God to know

what they were walking into. They were committing

their lives for the rest of their lives to follow

Jesus. And they personally witnessed it. They

tasted it. They seen it with their own eyes,

and it would never leave them. Once in a while,

sometimes we need a sign, right? We need something

that's not generated, not made up, not secondhand

information, not something you just read on a

page. Once in a while, you're going to need a

sign from heaven. You're going to need something,

right? He knew they're going to need a sign.

They're going to need something to strengthen

their faith. Sometimes we need a sign from God

to build our faith. We really do. Sometimes we

need God's super... power, his supernatural power

at work in our lives. Sometimes it's going to

be God's word. You always need God's word. We've

been talking about this. We're going to continue

to talk about it. You need to be in God's word

every day. You're not really going to understand

the sign when it comes, unless you're in his

word regularly. You're going to need the word

of God. You're going to need the Holy Spirit

at work in your life. And once in a while, say

sometimes, sometimes you're going to need a sign.

Sometimes you're going to need something to solidify

your spirit. Your godly courage is going to need

to rise up. You're going to need someone to remind

you of who he actually is and what he can do.

If you experience a genuine sign from God, a

miracle, a healing, something that's a sign from

heaven, it never leaves you. When I was a kid,

I grew up in church. We were in church all the

time. Not as much as Dixie's family. She was

a pastor's kid. She was in church. She lived

at church. She just had a sleeping bag there

just about. But we were in church a lot. My family

served the Lord and we were in church a lot.

And I remember going to a camp meeting. We had

camp meeting once a year in Somerset, Pennsylvania.

And they had... morning services, they had evening

services, and it wasn't like here. It wasn't

heat controlled, air conditioning. It was an

old open tabernacle. I don't know if you know

what that is, if you've ever been on a campground,

but it was an old open thing. Basically, just

think about a concrete pad, right, some walls

with doors that open, and a stage, and that's

it. No air conditioning, no heat, no anything.

And you would go up there in the summertime and

they would have camp meeting and they had these

old hard, you think these pews are stiff, man?

They had hard wooden pews that were stiff. But

I remember an evangelist coming in and he preached

a message, an amazing message. I don't remember

what it was about, but he had this altar call

and all these people came down to get healing.

And I'm a kid. I'm curious. I'm up front. I just

want to see what it's all about. I didn't really

go up to get healed or prayed for. I just wanted

to see what was going down. So I went up and

I remember standing there and they brought this

lady up and this lady come hobbling up the aisle

and she clearly had a deformed leg. And one leg

was shorter than the other. Now I'm not talking

about a half inch short. I'm not even talking

about two inch short. I'm talking like almost

needed a jacked up platform shoe, steel kind

of thing, short. And they brought her up, they

sat her down, and she had a lot of pain in her

hip because of all this, and they were praying.

And they said, what do you need? So these preachers

start praying for her. They just gather around

her, they anoint her with oil. They begin to

pray for her, right? And they had pulled her

legs up to see how short they were. And I'm talking

short. And they put her legs back down, and they

pray for her, and they pull her legs back up.

And I'm telling you, as true as I'm standing

here, they were the same length. The place erupted.

My jaw hit the ground as a kid. right? And some

of you are like, well, I don't believe it. I

don't care if you believe it or not. I saw it.

You don't have to believe it, right? But it never

left me. It never left me. I saw God move right

then, right there, and perform a miracle. It

never left me. It was amazing. She walked out

of that place just like everybody else did, right?

Jesus knew that sometimes you're going to need

the superpower of God at work in your life. Sometimes

you're going to need a sign. Sometimes it's going

to come in God's word. If you're reading God's

word daily, it's going to pop off the page. I've

had God just give me scriptures and it is a sign

from heaven. Sometimes it's going to be something

out in nature. Sometimes it's going to be something

that's in front of you. Sometimes it's going

to be healing. Turn to somebody right now, tell

them sometimes you just need a sign. Turn to

somebody, tell them you need a sign. It's true.

You're going to need a vision. You're going to

need a healing. You're going to need a miracle.

You're going to need something. You're going

to need a word, right? And I got to remind you

this morning, what's supernatural to us is completely

natural in God's kingdom. Sometimes we get in

all of what God does, and it's just everyday

stuff there, right? In the kingdom of God, it's

a piece of cake. But for us, it's a supernatural.

Stay in his word. Stay in the presence with the

Holy Spirit. And ask God, if you need a sign,

it's okay to ask for a sign, okay? Now, let me

issue a little warning right here. Sometimes

I got to issue a warning when I preach something.

Sometimes you got to have a little balance in

God's word, right? Sometimes we need a sign,

but we don't want to become sign and wonder junkies.

You know what that is? Anybody know somebody

that's a sign and wonder junkie? Right? Sometimes

we need God to speak into our lives, but you

don't want to become a sign and wonder junkie.

We want to chase God. We don't want to chase

the miracles and the signs and the wonders. It's

okay to ask for a sign. It's okay to get God

to give you that sign, but don't become a sign

and wonder junkie. There's a difference in waiting

and asking and God to confirm something in your

life and to give you a sign, and it's quite a

different thing if that's all you're ever chasing

is the signs, right? It's an amazing thing. I

remember as a kid, my dad went through back surgery

and he virtually could barely walk. And they

did the surgery and he was worse than when he

started out. That happens sometimes with back

surgery. He was on the couch. And I remember

my dad getting prayed for and he was healed.

For the next decades, my dad worked manual labor,

never had an issue. But my dad never chased the

sign. He just asked God. right? And people prayed.

We want to chase the one who performs the work,

not the work itself. Does that make sense? Got

to give a little warning there. Jesus said this

actually to his disciples, and this will bring

complete clarity to it because God's word always

brings clarity, right? Jesus said this to his

disciples after he rose from the grave. He stepped

out of the grave, the miracle of miracles, death

to life. And he said this as he was instructing

the disciples in Mark 16, 17. He said, and these

signs, say signs. will follow those who believe.

In my name they will cast out demons, they will

speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents,

and if they drink any deadly thing, it will by

no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the

sick, and they will recover. Jesus said the signs

will follow the believers, not the believers

should follow the signs. Amen? He said the signs

will follow you who believe. He will empower

you. And I don't got time to break down all what

that scripture means. There's a lot of meanings

in there. But he said the signs are going to

follow you. In John 6, 26, Jesus rebukes a crowd

of people for chasing him for the signs. Jesus

was praying. He was preaching. He was healing.

He was healing all kind of diseases. And at one

point, he ends up on a hillside, and he takes

a couple loaves and a couple fish and produces

enough bread, right? He breaks it, blesses it,

and feeds 5 ,000 people. People are not, how

many know that's a sign? Amen? You got a loaf

of bread and a couple fish, and you break it

and feed thousands of people. It was a sign.

And people started chasing after Jesus. They

started following him just because they were

after bread. They were just after a sign. Follow

God. Chase after God. And the sign will come.

The wonders will come. Stay in his word daily.

Follow the Holy Spirit. Chase after him. And

sometimes, say sometimes. Got to drill that into

you. Sometimes the sign that follows me will

be for someone else. The sign that's in my life

will be for someone else. Let me break that down

for you. Sometimes the sign. that takes place

in your life will be for someone else. This is

scriptural. It's threaded all through the New

Testament. It really is. Worship team, if you'd

come. If you'd come. Once Jesus raises from the

dead, comes out of the grave three days later,

he instructs his disciples. He's seen by over

500 witnesses. And he tells his disciples to

do something. He says, I want you to go leave

where you're at now and I want you to go to Jerusalem

and I want you to tarry there and I want you

to wait because I'm gonna send you a promise.

I'm gonna send you a gift. That gift that would

come, 120 listen to him and they go into an upper

room and they weigh and they pray and they seek

God. And Jesus does exactly what he said. He

sends to heaven, he leaves and he sends the Holy

Spirit to them. And when the Holy Spirit shows

up, he does not come quietly. In Acts chapter

two, he steps on the scene and he doesn't just

show up in a little whisper. He comes with great

power. Acts chapter two, verse one says this,

when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they

were with all with one accord in one place. And

suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a

rushing mighty wind. And it filled the whole

house where they were sitting. Then there appeared

to them divided tongues as of fire. Come on,

this would get your attention, right? This would

be a sign and a wonder. And one sat upon each

one of them, and they were all filled with the

Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues

as the Spirit gave them utterance. This was the

launch. This was the birth of the church. And

the first thing that took place was there was

a sign. The Holy Spirit showed up. There were

visible signs of what took place. 120 believers

that were in that upper room. They pour out into

the streets of Jerusalem. They begin to share

the gospel of Jesus Christ. And virtually thousands

of people come to faith that day in Jesus. Thousands.

The word of God says it. Peter preaches his first

message and thousands of people and they begin

to follow. Acts 1 .8 says, but when you receive

power, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you

and you shall be my witnesses to me in Jerusalem

and Judea and to the ends of the earth. And there

will be evidence and signs that the Holy Spirit

will do in you that will be for someone else.

Let me show you what that looks like. And probably

many of you have been in church, you've heard

this maybe your whole lives, and we teach it

in Sunday school to the kids, Galatians 5 .22.

But the fruit of the Spirit is what? Love, joy,

peace, long -suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self -control. Against such there

is no law. And those who are in Christ have been

crucified in the flesh and its passions and desires.

And if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk

in the Spirit. These are signs and wonders to

people out around you. You may have never seen

them that way. Some of you before Jesus, pre

-Jesus, you were not loving. You did not have

joy. You did not have peace. You did not have

long -suffering, kindness, goodness. You didn't

have these attributes. You come to Christ, and

all of a sudden, God begins to do a work in you.

Jesus begins to change your life. Some people,

when they get saved, you know, and people meet

them like six months later, they're like, what

happened to that person? They were mean as all

get out before. What happened? You get this person

who was so tough and terrible, and Jesus says

it's a sign. It's a fruit of the Spirit. And

the Word of God said it's not the only thing

that you're going to see. Matter of fact, how

many of you have ever met a mean Christian? Anybody

ever meet a Christian? Go ahead, raise your hand.

Just be honest. Yeah, yeah. You know, I wonder

sometimes when I'm meeting a Christian, I'm like,

wait a minute here. So the Holy Spirit comes

when we get saved. He comes to dwell in us. It's

love, joy, peace, long -suffering, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self -control.

Then there's you. Who exactly and what exactly

are you following, right? Because these should

be the signs that are there. These are what should

be prevalent in our lives. This is what should

come forth. I didn't say perfection. I just said

these are going to be evident. And Jesus didn't

stop there. It didn't stop with the fruit of

the Spirit, but he said, I'm going to give you

the gifts of the Spirit as well. Because 1 Corinthians

12, 4 says there's diversity of gifts. but the

same Spirit. There are differences of ministries,

but the same Lord in the diversities of activities,

but it is the same God who works all in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit, right, that's

what you see, is given to each for the profit

of all. It's for somebody else. The gift that's

working in you is for someone else. To some,

he's going to give a word of wisdom. This isn't

just conventional wisdom that you gathered as

you've gotten old, okay, like me. You got decades

under your belt, and it's just conventional.

It's a word of wisdom. It says a word of knowledge

through the same spirit. To another, faith, right?

This is supernatural faith. Gifts of healing,

working in miracles, prophecy, discerning of

spirits. To another, different kinds of tongues,

interpretation of tongues. But one and the same

spirit works all these things. It says this.

In other scriptures, like 1 Corinthians 12, 27,

it says gifts of healing and helps and administration

in tongues. Signs and wonders that follow the

believers. Y 'all get distracted so easy. Signs

and wonders that follow those who believe. Sometimes

you're going to need the sign yourself. There

are times you're going to need God to speak in

your spirit. There are times in your life you're

going to need an answer, and it's got to be a

God answer because you know you don't have the

answer. Anybody you consulted doesn't have the

answer, and you're going to need somebody that's

going to, you need a word from God. You need

something you know straight from the throne room

of grace. And then there's going to be other

times that the person beside you, look at the

person beside you right now, they're going to

need a sign, and God said he'll use you for the

sign. There's going to be times that God will

give you a word for somebody. This happens in

people's lives all the time. Christians are so

shocked, right? They're like, I just felt so

prompted to call somebody, and I needed to call

them, and I felt like I was supposed to share

the Scripture. Yeah, that's a word of wisdom

or a word of knowledge that God's prompting you

to do. Do it. Do it. That's a sign for somebody.

Do you know how many times somebody's walked

up to me? I've been praying about something,

and they walked up to me and said, I don't know

why I'm telling you this, but I've got to tell

you this. God just prompted me to tell you this.

I have to tell you this. And they say it, and

I'm like, boom, right there it is, right? It's

a sign. Sometimes you're going to go pray for

somebody. First time some of you pray for somebody

for healing, and God actually heals them, it's

going to blow your mind. I don't know why it

happens with Christians. We'll go pray for somebody,

for God to heal them. And God doesn't heal all

the time. He's sovereign. He decides and chooses

when he does that. But the first time you go

pray for somebody, it shocks you. I don't know

why, right? Dear Lord, heal them. And then when

God heals them, you're like, I can't believe

it. But it'll change you. You'll never forget

it. First time you pray for somebody and God

heals them, and that miracle takes place, it'll

blow your mind. It'll blow their mind. It'll

blow your mind. Both. You'll just both stand

there and stunned and in awe. of what God did.

Sometimes you're going to need a sign. Sometimes

God's going to use some of you. You're going

to have great faith in a moment and you're going

to pray for somebody and things are going to

shift. You're going to give them the right word,

the right thing. I sat in a room this week with

preachers. Now we all should. Like not be shocked

by anything. Room full of preachers. It was a

denominational gathering I had to go to. I serve

on a board and we're sitting there and a gentleman

that's there, he's an elderly pastor. He's in

his eighties, but he's got energy galore. He's

in his eighties. And he said, you know what?

He looked across the table to a guy who called

him, who normally would never ever call him.

And he said, I can't even tell you what that

word meant to me when you called me and spoke

that encouraging word to me. And the other guy

said, I can't tell you. All I can tell you is

I was going down the road and the Lord spoke

to me and said, you need to call him now. And

he called him. And I watched these two brothers

connect. And as long as we've been doing this,

these two pastors were both kind of shocked still,

even though it happens all the time. Sometimes

you're going to need a sign. I'm going to ask

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