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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 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 is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

Certainly a privilege for me to be able to share God's word with you today. My name's Jonathan. I have the privilege of serving here as our

Ballantyne campus pastor. And thanks for the love. And I say kind of feel the same way every time I get to stand up here.

On one hand, I'm so grateful to share God's word.

But I just always say, for me, the greatest privilege is to be able to sit under the teaching of this house,

under the leadership of our pastors, Pastor Stephen and Pastor Holly.

And he asked me the other day, are you going to continue in this series?

That's what I thought series.

And I said, that would be dangerous for me to attempt to follow that up.

Was that not a masterful series that we just went through as a church?

And I'm still trying to quantify and qualify what God's done in my heart through that series.

It was so powerful and so profound.

And so I'm so grateful for a pastor who gets alone with God in the secret place to bring us fresh revelation,

fresh insight week after week.

Can we thank God for our pastors together? And before I read

our scriptures for today, I want to give a special welcome to our Uptown campus, my old stomping

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