Well, welcome today to all of our live churches, all of our network churches, and those of you who are joining us from countries around the world at church online.

My name is Craig Groschell, and I am so thankful that you're with us today. We have a guest speaker who I'm telling you is one of the finest communicators of the Bible in the world today.

He is a very close friend of mine. He is the founding and senior pastor of Elevation Church, a church that believe it or not is only five years old and ministering to well over 8,000 people, which 10,000 people are living in the world today.

We have a guest speaker who I'm telling you is one of the finest communicators of the Bible in the world today. He is a very close friend of mine.

He is the founding and senior pastor of Elevation Church, a church that believe it or not is only five years old and ministering to well over 8,000 people, which technically should be impossible.

But when you see the way God's hand is on this young man, you'll say, oh, I see why God is doing so much there. It's my honor today to introduce to you the author of Sunstand Still to me, one of my favorite books that's been written.

I personally ask him to come and to share this message with all of you because I promise you it'll build your faith and you will never be the same.

I'm going to introduce to you today my very good friend, a great man of God, Pastor Stephen Furtick.

Well, thank you. And I want to say what a privilege it is to be preaching at the greatest church in America. That's hard for me to say because I love my church, but you're the church that we look to.

When we consider what God wants to do through us and in us, you really are our big brother, big sister church. Pastor Craig is the best big brother that any pastor could ask for.

And he takes really good care of me. I can't tell you how many times on a Thursday afternoon, I've been discouraged or uncertain about my message for that weekend or decision that I had to make.

And I'll get a phone call and when it says Craig Rochelle on caller ID, I always know that I'm going to be built up and encouraged and he's going to have something wise to share with me.

And I just really counted an honor that I could invest into this church today, a word of encouragement. And every Monday I go to church at life church on my computer.

It's the first stop I make to refill myself. And I know you have speakers from all over the world come in and tell you how great you are.

And that's because it's true. You're phenomenal. And we need you in the body of Christ. I was thinking about like what could I say that would actually sound sincere that wouldn't just sound like the typical guest speaker flattery.

You're all some of your pastors great and you really know that I meant it. And a lot of things came to mind, but then I thought maybe I should just share an analogy.

So today I'm going to share with you from Joshua chapter 10 verses 7 through 14, one of the greatest miracles in the Bible. It's obscure. A lot of people don't preach about it. A lot of people have never heard of it, but it's phenomenal. And you'll see that in just a moment.

And God's going to begin to do magnificent, phenomenal, magnanimous, unforgettable, unthinkable things in your life today too. But this church really is a sun stands still church. You don't understand what that means right now.

You will in just a moment. This church is a church that over and over again has seen God do miraculous outstanding incomprehensible things, but you can get used to that. And here's the analogy that came to my mind. Okay, flow with me here.

When I was like 12 years old, I grew up in South Carolina. So in the Southern United States of America. And my friend asked me to help him with his fireworks stand. We have fireworks stands all over in the United States. And you can come up and buy bottle rockets and explosives.

But working at a fireworks stand in the low country of South Carolina, you meet some people. You meet some interesting characters. You see, and this won't make sense to some of our viewers, but see if this vibes with you.

You see every conceivable variety of mullet. Every conceivable variety of NASCAR t-shirt. And the thing about it is, I was like this 12 13 year old kid working at the fireworks stand. And so these people with mullets and NASCAR t-shirts, they come up to the fireworks stand, you know, over and over again throughout the day.

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