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.

Holly is going to share our anniversary message. She's never preached on the church anniversary.

She always makes me work on the church birthday this year. It's her turn all over the world

right now. People are joining us and they're hungry to hear from God. And God has sent us

somebody today who lives the Word of God. And that's going to make it so much more powerful.

Her authenticity only gets deeper the closer that you come. In our fact, she was all this

week watching old videos of the church crying. We were sitting around a table in Shelby

North Carolina getting ready to get started. Even before you were here, Adam, and that's

how you've been here a long time. But even before that, when we were sitting around the

table in Shelby North Carolina, and she said, come watch some of these. It'll touch your

heart. I said, I don't want to watch it. I don't, you know, like there's a fine line between

like getting back to your core and then cringing at everything that, you know, like my, how

my voice sounded and everything. But I snuck in and watched one of the clips. I wanted

them to show it real quick with mute. I'm not going to let them hear my voice or what

I was saying. But what I want you to notice is that that guy in the three sizes, two big

button down who didn't deserve this, this woman that God gave him. Notice is on August 14,

2005. Just about six months before we had our first public service, I believe, that

in just a moment, here comes somebody in the room. What's he doing? He's, he's moving back

for the person who's supposed to be sitting beside him. And there's Elijah, who's 15 now,

the OG of the elevation court team. And what I want you to see is her smile. And I want

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