The Power Of Dependency

• All right, before we get into the message,  I have something really exciting to share.   Elevation Nights is back and we’re coming to  eight incredible cities this October from the   21st through the 30th. We’re coming to St.  Paul, Omaha, St. Louis, Louisville, Duluth,   Tampa, Miami, and Orlando. And we’re bringing  the full experience to you.
• Elevation Worship   Live and a powerful message from my husband,  Pastor Steven. I cannot wait to see what God   is going to do in these cities. So, don’t  wait. I don’t want you to miss out on this.   Head to elevation.com if you live near any of  those cities. Grab your tickets and get ready   to meet with God and leave feeling inspired and  encouraged. We cannot wait to worship with you.
• My name is Lisa, and I can’t even tell y’all, um,  how excited I am to be here, how overwhelmed I   am to be here. Um, you are family to me, whether  you claim me or not, I claim y’all. Um, I deeply,   deeply, deeply love and respect Pastor Holly  and Pastor Steven. And I know full well you   could have anybody from around the world,  and it would be an undeserved privilege for   them to be in this house.
• And so, um, I’m always  surprised flying from Nashville to Charlotte that,   um, yeah, I kinda feel like the girl in the math  club and the quarterback asked her to prom. Um,   it is… I mean, not that there  aren’t amazing girls in math clubs. My apologies if you’re in the math club,  but, um, but I just, I, I’m always,   um, just kind of undone that I get to be with  y’all because I love this house so much.
• Chunks   and Amy Corbett, I would follow y’all off a  cliff. I just think you hung the moon. And   I’m feeling especially nostalgic this week, and so  I’m glad I get to be with, uh, surrogate family,   because my little girl, um, some of you  I’ve met, and some of you know I became   a mom through the miracle of adoption.
• And the  year I turned 50, I don’t have a baby daddy yet,   so if you know somebody… I’m 61. If you know  somebody between 55 and death, I’ll go younger,   who’s, who’s employed and loves Jesus, and  doesn’t live in his mother’s basement. But anyway,   it’s just Missy and me, and she’s turning  16 a week from today. And so just all those,   all those mama feelings have been welling up  over the last week.
• And I’ve been talking to   her about all these memories I, I have from  when I first brought her home from Haiti in   2014. And she had all these just precious habits,  like one of them was she called me Pablo. Um,   the entire time that I was adopting her from  Haiti for two years, she called me Mama Blah,   White Mama in Creole.