Stop Waiting, Start Trusting

• I believe there are many here today who are  standing in front of something God is calling   you to walk into, but you won’t go into it because  you don’t know what’s on the other side of it.   Enter Elisha, the prophet. Now, this is what I  got up to talk to you about on this Pentecost   Sunday. A little Bible story I really love. I  hope you love it too by the time we’re done.
• I don’t need you to know every single  detail about the kingdom of Israel to get   this Bible passage. Please. I know some  people, when they get into this stuff,   are like, “Oh, I feel so dumb, man. I  don’t know any of these Bible stories,   and I know I should, but I don’t  know what you’re talking about.
• ” You don’t need to know every bit of  the background of this just to get   what God has for you from it. Here’s what I  think you need to know about this passage.   The king of Israel and the king of  Judah… So, there’s a northern kingdom   of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.  Jehoshaphat is a pretty good king in Judah.
• Jehoram is a terrible king, but his mom  was Jezebel. She was really, really bad,   and Ahab was bad, so he came by it honestly.  He didn’t really get a lot of good training   in how to do this, but he was terrible.  These two kings are with another king   from Edom, which was the wilderness  where they were attacking through.
• So,   they pick up this king of Edom, and they’re going  to fight against Moab. Moab is trying to rebel. Let me explain the situation. Let’s  see if you’ve ever been there before.   On their way to go to war, they run out  of water in the wilderness. Has that   ever happened to anybody in here?  On your way to fight one battle,   you encounter something you didn’t plan  for that weakens you on your way to war.
• It’s this feeling you can get sometimes. “I  was already juggling enough. I was already   struggling enough.” I feel so anointed to  break chains today for people. I’m excited   about it. “I was already stressed enough. I  was already overwhelmed enough. Now this?” In   the King James version of the Bible, one  of the kings looks up and says, “Alas!” I love that because it’s kind of like the King  James cussword.