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.

I'm going to share one verse and then I'm going to let you be seated. And the verse is

actually an ecclesiasties 11. I have unintentionally been working my way backwards through this

passage of Scripture. And I haven't started a series lately, but unintentionally, just

been using these thoughts from Solomon who has us enrolled in the School of Wisdom. And

he has the right to do it because some people called him the wisest man who ever lived.

He was like Elon Musk of the Old Testament, but the only difference between Solomon and

Elon Musk is he wrote his treatise to help us see that if you succeed, but you're not

fulfilled, or if you succeed, but you don't have peace, or if you succeed, but you're

succeeding at things that don't have real meaning, you will come up empty in the end.

And so he helps us with that with a few principles from the Word of God. And this one today

I want to share is very, very simple from the School of Solomon. Ecclesiastes, chapter

11 verse 4 says this, whoever watches the wind will not plant, whoever looks at the clouds

will not reap. So I know I told you I was going to preach today, but really this is more

like an announcement of a fight, okay? So really we came to watch a fight today. And the

title of this message is called Wind versus Word. In this corner is the wind and his opponent

is the Word. And I believe this message is for someone today who is conflicted between

the wind and the Word of God. And I believe today God is going to speak to your heart.

Do it Lord, in Jesus name. Amen. Touch somebody say ding ding. Amen. You may be seated.

One thing that is interesting to me and the verse really suggests the same reality is how

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