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.

Well, hello, church. My name's Seth Pete. I'm the campus pastor at Elevation University

City and I have the honor of being able to preach today. Hey, University City, hey,

you see, um, it's such an honor to be able to preach this weekend. But before we move forward,

can we take a moment and thank God for our pastor, pastor, Stephen, you can do better than

that. You can do better than that. We, we all get to benefit from hearing him preach every

weekend on this stage. But very few get to see how he pastors people personally off the stage.

In this week, this week, he encouraged me. He looked me in my eyes and said,

, Chet, I believe in you. I'm sure God has a call on your life and I believe that God has given

you a word that our church needs to hear. That's the type of pastor that we have. And

started the year off with flip the flow. Who was here for flip the flow. Roll right into

maybe God. It's been so powerful. So, you know, and throughout maybe God, God was just

dealing with me. And as we kind of ended the series last week, I wanted to share a little

bit about what God has best kind of revealed to me throughout this series of, how do we discern

God's voice and recognize the will that he has for our lives. And we're going to be in this text

Mark chapter 10 verses 46 through 52. If you have your Bible and want to pull it out, you can

do that now. If not, the scriptures will be on the screen. Mark chapter 10 verses 46 through

52 story about a blind man named Bartimaeus. At verse 46, it says, then they came to Jericho. As

Jesus and his disciples together with the large crowd were leaving the city. A blind man,

Bartimaeus, which means son of Tameus was sitting by the roadside. And he was begging. When he

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