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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

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Hope it builds your faith.

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The Lord put it on my heart to share from this passage and this thought with you. And I want to speak to you today from Second Kings

4, 1 through 6. And really I want to speak to someone who is in a deficit in an area of your

life. The more I become exposed to, I'm convinced there are many

different varieties of poverty. And so you can be rich financially and broke emotionally.

You can be rich financially and broke relationally.

You can have a lot of responsibility and not a lot of joy.

Or you can have a lot of joy and not a lot of influence.

And so I learned that poverty, although we tend to associate it with finances, can be a poverty of a different kind.

And that really helped me when I was first starting preaching.

I thought, and I was telling Mike this this morning right before I came out to preach how,

you know, some people come to church and take the bus, and some people come in a Bentley,

in the same church.

And so you kind of feel on the surface like, well, maybe you can't preach the same message

to the person who is in the top tax bracket, and maybe the person who hasn't had a job

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