Hey, this is Stephen Fertig. 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

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

Look, I want to preach about joy today and I want to get there from a story and then

share several scriptures with you. Can I tell you a story? I just got a new car last year.

I drove a Nissan Maxima for 10 years before I bought this new car. I loved my Nissan

Maxima. My car before this Nissan Maxima was a Nissan Maxima. That's how much I liked

my Nissan Maxima. I maximized the Maxima and it was very good to me. Only thing that I

ever remember happening other than the time it cut off in an intersection was that one

day I was driving down the road a few years ago and my stereo system started doing strange

things. It started skipping around to different tracks without me telling it to. The volume

kept increasing and decreasing and so then I would put it back on the song I wanted to

listen to and I would turn down the volume or turn up the volume depending on it would

go both ways without me telling it to without me turning the knob. It happened for about

10-15 minutes straight one day that I was driving and it seemed like my speakers, my car

had a mind of their own. So I thought maybe my Maxima got a demon and then I looked in

the back seat and realized it wasn't a demon. It was my daughter that she had the center

console down and I never rode back there so I didn't realize that all the years that I've

had this car you can control the volume and skip tracks from back there and she was laughing

and Graham was back there and he was laughing and they were controlling something from the

back that I was trying to deal with in the front and they thought it was so funny and I

told him stop that it's annoying when I figured out what they were doing. Two or three minutes

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