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.

If you're joined us for the first time, welcome to elevation church. Welcome to 2022.

We, this is a faith church. I'm going to, I'm going to try it again. I know it's the first

Sunday. I know you've been there. You've been watching Elf movies for a long time. So I'm going

to try it again. This is a faith church. Chucks, chucks. You know, the first, the first time I ever

came to elevation, first time I ever came to elevation was for Orange Code Revival Night.

And, and, and, and Joyce Meyer was preaching that night. And we pulled up here to the, to the

campus. We pulled up at the stoplight. I could feel the faith out on the street. You could

feel the expectation. What I'm trying to say to you, if you are in that amazing connect

group in, in Virginia, if you're watching online, we're, we're a believing church. We

believe that God can do it. We believe that God is with you. We believe that God is for

you. We believe that no, I has seen and no ear has heard and no mind can even imagine

the things that God has in store for those who love him and are called according to his

name. This is a faith church. Come on clap like you believe it today. I'm excited. I want

to give honor where honor is due today. Anybody love your pastors? Come on, I think you

ought to go crazier than that. Anybody love the pastors of this amazing church. Pastor

Stephen and Holly Ferdick, we love you. We honor you. The Bible literally teaches us

to give honor where it is due. And so we honor this family. We honor this amazing couple.

We honor pastor Stephen for not just his gift, but to use his gift to preach the good news

and to point people to Jesus. And we just thank God for them. I think we ought to pray for

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