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.

My name is Chad Hampton and I have the privilege of being the campus pastor at our Lake

Norman location. I want to say what's up Lake Norman. I love y'all. Hope you're doing well.

But it's an honor and a privilege to get to stand up here today and declare God's words to you.

And I'm always grateful for a pastor that would entrust me with this moment that would empower me

to stand up on this platform. Why? No such a big price has been paid so that this platform could

exist. And I don't stand on a pedestal today trying to display how good I am because a pedestal

displays but I want to stand on a platform because a platform declares how good God is. And so

He's been good to me. He's been good to you. I want you to believe that today. So we're going to

we're going to go to John chapter four and I believe that God wants to produce a faith in you

today that is greater than whatever fear you might be facing today. So if you'll just lean in

and you'll receive what he has to say. John chapter four verses 46 through 53. It says once more

he visited Canaan and Galilee talking about Jesus where he had turned the water into wine. And there

was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived

in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son who was close to death.

Unless you people see signs in wonders Jesus told him he'll never believe. The royal official says

sir come down before my child dies. Go Jesus replied your son will live. The man took Jesus at his

word and departed while he was still on the way of servants met him with the news that his boy

was living. When he inquired us at the time when his son got better they said to him yesterday

everyone say yesterday yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him then the father

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