Hey, this is Stephen Furtick on 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 as moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

So blessed to be here, hello from Las Vegas.

It was one 18, yesterday when we flew here.

118 degrees. I don't know if you all know what that meant. Like not 118 p.m. Like it was 118 degrees,

as we... So it's good to be here. And it's an honor to be here. God has been doing some great things

at our church there in Las Vegas, but I'm very honored to be here. And honestly, we really are the

product of relationship. We're the product of amazing people that God has blessed us to connect with.

And the first on that list is Pastor Stephen, Pastor Holly Fertic. We are who we are, I am who I am,

because of your pastors, because of this house, because of what God has done through them.

And I'm so grateful. I've always been so grateful for Pastor Stephen, but especially

in this season, the way that he rose and the way that he stepped up and the way that he led

and the way that he preached and the way that he wrote songs and the way that he loved us and

gave to us and prayed for us and encouraged us. I don't know, I don't find the only one, but I'm

so grateful that Pastor Stephen, honestly, in the pandemic went, I can't just pass through elevation

church. He literally became like an apostle to our nation and to the world. And I'm part of the

EFAM. I don't know if you know that because we were recording on Wednesdays and I would preach

on Wednesdays during the pandemic and then we would stream on Sundays and Sundays. I just woke

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