Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 4, the amplified version of the scriptures, every valley shall be lifted

and filled up, and every mountain and heel shall be made low, and the crooked and uneven shall be made

straight and level, and the rough places plain. So I talking to the need from the subject, lessons from the valley.

Lessons from the valley.

You may be seated.

In fact, the verse that precedes that actually says that a voice is calling, and it says,

clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness

make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. Listen if you make room for God, God will come.

And then that's when it says, let every valley be lifted up.

God is the great equalizer.

He has a way of taking the things that's up here and bringing them down.

And the things that's down here and raising them back up.

You will discover if you live long enough that life is a series of both hills or mountains and valleys, mountains and valleys.

Valleys are actually located in between mountains generally. So if you're in a valley right now,

your next destination is a mountain.

So you go from mountain to the valley.

Mountain Valley, Mountain Valley.

If you've ever been in a hospital room and watched anybody hooked up on one of those machines,

Mountain Valley, beep, beep. You're just having mountain valley experiences the whole time. Mountain Valley, Mountain Valley, Mountain Valley.

How dare you quit? Why are you in the valley?

Don't ever despise the valley.

You'll despise the valley if you don't understand the lessons of the valley, the value of the

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