Come Out Of The Cave

TL;DR Summary

Pastor Daniel Floyd delivers a compelling message at Elevation Church, urging listeners to “Come Out Of The Cave.” He uses the analogy of caves to describe the places of retreat and confinement we create for ourselves under pressure. Drawing from the story of the Israelites in Judges 6, Pastor Floyd illustrates how pressure can either refine or confine us, challenging us to break free from the limitations we impose on ourselves and step into the fullness of God’s promises.

The core of Pastor Floyd’s message is rooted in the story of the Israelites, who, under the oppressive power of the Midianites, retreated into caves, both physically and metaphorically. He references Judges 6, where the Israelites, having done evil in the eyes of the Lord, find themselves impoverished and hiding. Pastor Floyd emphasizes that pressure, whether from external circumstances or our own choices, can cause us to shrink back and limit our potential. However, he reminds us that God sees beyond our limitations, calling Gideon a “mighty warrior” despite his fear and hiding, and encourages us to trust in God’s vision for our lives.

Pastor Floyd encourages us to listen to God’s voice, start with what we have, and trust that God is with us. He challenges us to step out of our caves, those self-imposed prisons of fear and doubt, and move towards the life God has called us to live. By trusting in God’s faithfulness and taking bold steps, even when afraid, we can transform our caves into testimonies of God’s power and grace. This message is a call to action, urging believers to embrace their identity in Christ and live courageously.

Full Sermon Transcript

So good to be in church today. My wife is with me, two of the four are with me. We have four kids, 16, 14, 6, and 4. And yeah, same wife. Some people think it’s too late, no same, and we just took a break and took a long break in between there. The two little ones, they don’t sit still long enough to get traveling rights, so they’re at home. But we’re just honored to be here. If you’re ever in the Fredericksburg Richmond area of Virginia, come say hello to us sometime. We would love to host you and love to have you visit sometime. Honored to be here. I would be remiss if I didn’t say at the onset that this house and the leaders of this House have made such a difference in our lives as I think all of us could testify to. Moments setting over there hearing a message called take your seat at the gate that marked me at an inside elevation, a moment before service praying together at Providence High School so we all remember Providence that marked me just moments throughout where something Pastor Stephen said in a phone call something in a message I think we’d all have to testimony some lyric that carried us through a moment of a song and I just want to say how much we love your pastors Pastor Stephen Pastor Holly what a gift they are to you but what a gift they are to the body of Christ come on can we put our hands together and thank God for our leaders today what an Incredible Gift.

Well, are you ready for the word today? Come on, I know this is a house that loves the word of God and so if you have a Bible with you Judges chapter six we’re gonna get to it and get to work and believing that God wants to say something to you today Judges chapter 6. Start in verse 1 read to about verse 6. It says again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord it’s a great verse to start with right hey welcome to Elevation Eve Israel did Evil not smart guest speaker guy Susan for seven years he gave them into the hands of the midianites everybody shout midianites and because the power of Midian was so oppressive the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in Mountain clefs caves and strongholds and whenever the Israelites planted their crops the midianites amalekites and other Eastern peoples invaded the country and they camped on the land and they ruined the crops all the way to Gaza they did not spare a living thing for Israel neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys and they came up with their livestock and their tents like swarm of locusts it was impossible to count the men and their camels they invaded the land and they ravaged it midians so impoverished the Israelites one translation says they reduced them to starvation that they cried out to the Lord for help.

I want to bring a message today if you’re a note-taking type write this down if you’re not go ahead and write it down called come out of the cave come out of the cave let’s pray together father our hearts and minds are open we’ve come to hear from heaven today we haven’t come to do some religious ritual but we believe the word of God is powerful and alive and can change our lives today so do that do what only you can do in our hearts and our minds we pray this in Jesus name everybody said a big amen amen.

So not too long ago my oldest Owen who’s with us he’s 16 starts driving next month everybody pay for my insurance bill please say a prayer add that to your prayer list he comes up to me out of the balloon he says Hey Dad did you ever pull an all-nighter and I was like yeah there were several times in college that I pulled all-nighters anybody else in the house come on every campus afam you pulled an all-nighter okay um I don’t know if it’s um you know justification for my procrastination but I just kind of like to say that I enjoyed all-nighters I had all-nighters back in the day where you went to the computer lab come on somebody you didn’t have no laptop in your room what’s she talking about spoiled went to a computer lab with my disc can I get an amen in the house of God today my discs put that in the slot had to wait for a spot for all the other procrastinators that were in the computer lab and then I’d work on that thing until about seven in the morning run and get some breakfast head to class acting like I had that thing done for two weeks so I was he was like I said yeah I pulled several all-nighters and at the same time in my mind I’m trying to calculate weight I think he’s trying to get approval for waiting until the last minute come on have you know your sins will catch up to you at some point in your life and your parenting usually trying to get justification so at some point he can put things off till the last moment but I kind of like the pressure I I gotta I kind of enjoyed the pressure actually I I fed off of it I thrived off the pressure honestly a little bit I kind of think that I’m a little more creative when I’m under pressure I think I write a little better when I’m under pressure I think I perform a little better anybody else with me like you kind of like the pressure the rest of you like I’ve just triggered something on the inside of you like you’re gonna go to in therapy this week we all need some therapy you’re going to be talking about how like it brought up things of you you know some of you dream that you showed up to class without a paper and it was nightmares but I kind of like the pressure and you know pressure is really interesting in life because we all face it do we not we all go through some pressure some of you here under immense pressure right now in this moment the pressure to perform we all face pressure we Face the pressure to to just act like we’ve got it all together when we’re falling apart on the inside face the pressure of how will my kids turn out we all face pressures Financial pressures relational pressures but we all face pressure in life and whether you’re tuning in today and you believe in Jesus and God and the Bible and all those things or you don’t the commonality of The Human Experience is that we all face pressure somebody shout pressure and I found that pressure usually comes from a couple of different places in our life how many of you know life just happens that sometimes it’s the choices of other people that cause pressure in your life that sometimes it’s just life circumstances just out of the blue you didn’t wake up and plan it you didn’t wake up that day hoping for it but just out of nowhere pressure came on you and how many of you know that if we’re real honest sometimes the pressures in our life come because of the choices that we made that we did something we said something we we sewed something so many years ago and we’re reaping that thing now and sometimes pressure is just let’s be real God didn’t do it your mama didn’t do it I did it or y’all tracking with me comes from a different couple of different places but when we read in this story right now the Israelites under immense pressure and they’re under immense pressure from this group called The midianites this group of people that that have have put the full force and the full weight of themselves on Israel and it pressure can be debilitating it can be overwhelming it can back you into a corner and make you feel like I have no other option and I have no other way out this is what pressure will do to you and I have found in life that pressure will do one of two things to you it’ll either refine you or it will confine you are y’all following me so far we’re going somewhere we’re just building it’ll either refine you or it will confine you you know pressure can be powerful to refine something I was reading this week not that I’m a scientist whatsoever those all-night papers were not scientific papers but I found that whenever carbon atoms are put under 725 000 pounds of pressure per square inch and the right temperature they produce a diamond 725 000 pounds of pressure per square inch that’s a whole lot of pressure so that pressure is refining a little carbon atom now that little carbon atom isn’t going this is awesome I don’t know how carbon atom sake I’ve just in my mind you know this is wonderful I just love this version I love that I’m under pressure and that I’m hidden and that nobody can see me and then I’m down in this dirt and all this pressure is on top of me I’m just loving this right now thank you Jesus for your faithfulness but I’m under the pressure right now but that pressure is refining to produce something how many of you know that I found that whenever I’m under pressure it feels like I’m hidden because whatever is weighing down on me is hiding me it feels like no one whenever you’re under pressure you can feel like no one sees you that no one knows you you wonder if God is even in the building with you in the moment does God even know what I’m going through but I would propose to you that there are some things in your life that can only be developed under pressure I’m not saying that God sends the midianites into your life but I’m just saying that he has a way of working all things together and that if you will allow him the pressure can refine that there are some character traits that there is some faith that needs to be built that you don’t see the diamond in you but God sees the diamond in you and on the other side of the pressure I wonder if I got anybody that’s been through some pressure in your life and you other side of the pressure there’s some greater faith that on the other side of the pressure you learn to worship him like you’ve never worshiped him before that on the other side does pressure will either refine you or will confine you pressure has a way of molding something on the inside of you pressure has a way of of working out some of the things in you that need to get out of you pressure can refine you somebody shout pressure but pressure can also confine you and this is what’s happening to Israel in the text that we just read the Bible says that again Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord somebody Shout again if you want a story if you want to overview the Old Testament can we go to Sunday school real quick let me give you Old Testament survey God chooses Israel Israel is happy and worshiping God blesses Israel Israel is living in the blessing of God Israel is like we bless I don’t know we need God anymore and Israel walks away from God and starts doing life on their own and they face all the consequences of it not because God is beating them up because when you choose your own God’s like go ahead I’ll leave the light on for you I’ll be right here waiting when you get back when you figure out this don’t work your way when you figure out doing life your way when you figure out having any bad attitudes living negative unforgiveness when you figure out it don’t work that way I’ll leave the light on I’m right here waiting on you they cry out to God what does God do because he’s a good God he rescues Israel then He blesses Israel and then issue is like I don’t know that we need God anymore I’ll start doing it my own way and then they get the consequences of it repeat repeat are y’all tracking with me and this is where we are in the story right now it says that Israel again again Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and so they’re in one of these Cycles man this kind of sounds like us sometimes doesn’t y’all remember they told him this is my story this is my song praising My Savior I’m not your pastor I don’t I can’t write lyrics ain’t nobody like him says praising My Savior all the day long I’m like no that’s not my story some days it’s praising them all day long some days it’s I think I could do it on my own oh we got the Saints in the house today well just for me for anybody that ain’t wearing the saint Halo today for me it’s like no this sounds like my story sometimes Israel that sometimes I’m going all in for God and sometimes I got days where it’s like I thank God I can do it on my own and this is the cycle that Israel’s in and so when Israel decides to do it on their own God’s like okay do it your way and as a result Midian comes in these midianites they come in and they begin to attack Israel and they begin to confine Israel because pressure will either refine you or it will confine you you know what I found this week that I’ve never seen before is that Midian was a thorn in the flesh to another follower of God by the name of Joseph I don’t know if you know this Genesis chapter 37 it won’t be on the screen for you I’m just going to tell you have to trust me that I’m giving you the correct Bible verse but the Bible says that Joseph’s brothers if you remember this the code of Many Colors they didn’t like them they threw him into the pit you’ll track him with me they put them into the pit and then whenever there were some ishmaelites came along but they were Israelites that were midianite Traders so same group of people same pressure Joseph determines that no matter the circumstance or the situation whether I’m in the pit or I’m in Potiphar’s house or I am in the prison the Bible says the hand of the Lord was with him and that he rose to the top in the middle of every situation because pressure will either refine you or it will confine you now we get over here to Judges chapter 6 and we see the midianites as a thorn in their flesh again and what happens is that Israel begins to retreat because when pressure confines you it will shrink you and when the pressure of Life comes on you will either say Okay God can work all this together for my good or you will begin to shrink back and the Bible tells us that physically geographically the Israelites begin to shrink back they begin to stream back it says they made they made shelters and caves and in the clefs and in strongholds they physically shrunk back I think it’s a metaphor for what you and I do whenever pressure comes on our life they begin to shrink back they begin to make themselves small they begin to limit their thinking they begin to to limit the possibilities in their life they begin to settle in for what they thought could happen they begin to settle in for what they thought was the right solution in the middle of this difficulty and pressure they begin to shrink themselves and whenever pressure comes on us we will begin to shrink our dreams we’ll begin to shrink our faith down we’ll begin to shrink the possibilities down in our life we’ll begin to settle in for less than our inheritance as children of the Living God will begin to believe the lie of the enemy that it’s always going to be this way we’ll never get out of this situation we’ll never be moved Beyond this circumstance we begin to shrink ourselves I wonder not out loud but if you wouldn’t answer inside what part of your life have you shrunk down because here’s the deal the enemy doesn’t have to steal your confidence he just has to put enough pressure on you and you’ll give it up yourself the enemy doesn’t have to rob you of Joy he just has to put enough pressure enough financial pressure enough relational pressure enough parenting pressure on you he doesn’t have to get the enemy can’t come and take anything from you we give it up ourselves because of the pressure and it shouldn’t be this way Israel forgot who they were shouldn’t be this way the Bible says that they made shelters for themselves in caves it didn’t say midi and built shelters for them in the caves when the pressure comes on we will build our own shelters and caves Israel should have been living in Wide Open Spaces they’re the children of Promise they’re the nation God’s chosen people are y’all following me they are God’s people they shouldn’t have been withdrawing living below their level getting up and putting themselves in caves it shouldn’t have been that way but we will make caves for ourselves we will make our own prisons when the pressure comes on in our life this is what Israel is doing and it shouldn’t have been this way they’re the children of the most high God I mean how much previous in their story they’re they’re a they’re a narrative they’re a um a storytelling culture this is how they’re passing down things from generation to generation so this group of people you know heard about the Red Sea Crossing this group of people you know had to hear about the cloud by day and the fire by night they had to hear about the the plagues that allowed Pharaoh caused him to go no no you guys go ahead and go I want you to leave like like they had heard the stories of how God was working among them but yet they’re making shelters for themselves in caves and it it shouldn’t have have been that way they they limited the god that they served because when you see yourself as small you see God as small and they saw themselves as only able to live in caves and to back up and to shrink themselves down and when you look at God through the lens of you you always limit God.

Let me say that again when you look at God through the lens of you you will limit God I think about Naaman Naaman the Bible says that he went you know the story and he was going to dip seven times but when he went to the Prophet this verse always gets me he got angry when the prophet said go to the Jordan and dip in it seven times he got angry and then the text says this it says I thought he would come out wave his hand over me and speak over me and then I would be healed the first two words in that sentence are his problem I thought and then he said how God would do it and what God would do when we limit God by what we think can happen we bring God down to our level in other words we limit God to the level of our imagination we we limit God to the level of can I think it up can I dream it up can I design it up can I scheme it up and then go God can you do this but I think the Apostle Paul is the one who wrote but my God is able to do immeasurably more then I can ask think or or what or what or imagine that we serve the god that is outside of our imagination and if he’s the god that can part the Red Sea and if he is the cloud by day and Fire by nine if he’s the god of the ten plagues if he’s the god that met Moses on top of Mount Sinai if he’s the god that took down Goliath through the rock of David if he is that God then why would we limit him by the level of what we can think what we can imagine Israel was limiting God because they had forgotten who their God was in any time we distance ourselves from God we forget who God is anytime we put distance this is why it’s so important to be in the house of God every Sunday this is why it’s so important to connect ephem every single Sunday why because you know what distance between you and God this is what time in the word is so important every day this is why being on a team being in an e-group why because it’s so important to be around the family of God and the people of God that are going to help you see God whenever it’s clouded in your perspective you need some people in your life that go no no no no no no he is the god that brought you out before that he’s the god that did the miracle before no he’s no let me remind you so you’ve got a little bit of Amnesia right now because you’ll turn caves into prisons and the midianites didn’t lock them up they locked themselves up they made for themselves shelters in the caves Midian doesn’t need to do it when we’ll do it for ourselves we give the devil too much credit the devil didn’t do it just the pressure was great enough that sometimes we do it caves in the presence and if we stay in a cave long enough not only does it turn into a prison it turns into a tomb the the text said that in the in the King James that’s what I grew up I’m a church kid I grew up on the king Jimmy somebody the yeast and the thou for it and there shall too if we if we really get preaching you quote the King James you feel a lot more spiritual it ain’t true but you feel it come on it says it reduced them to starvation reduce them to starvation I don’t think it does any disservice to this text to say that there’s a good chance that people died in the caves if you’re starving and everything is getting plundered it’s it doesn’t stretch too much I don’t think to say that some people probably died in The Capes and I’ll be honest with you I kind of understand I kind of understand because the Bible says that they would go out and they would sow crops and then the midianites would come and wipe the crops out and then they’d back in the caves and then they go out and try to sew again over the seven year period and then the midianites would come and the amalekites and all the other Eastern peoples and everybody would come in and pray all the caves and so then they just back up again why Try why do it again it’s just more comfortable in the cave I wonder if you’ve ever felt that way like I’m gonna try to re-engage that relationship and then you’re met with rejection you feel like you get slapped again and why try just get back in I’ll just get back to the K the cave is comfortable it’s not where I’m meant to be it’s not the purpose of God for my life it’s not the calling of God on my life but it’s much easier to isolate than it is to try again and get disappointed again so you begin to be generous again and then you’re met with some unexpected Spence out of the blue and you’re like why am I even trying to be have you ever noticed that the moment you start to really lean into faith and lean into God it’s like where in the world is all this battle coming from around me it’s because there are some midianites in your life that want you to go back to the cave that the moment you begin to step out the enemy’s like no no let me see if I can put enough pressure if I can just push them back to the cave I’m not saying that he can this isn’t a Salvation issue are y’all tracking you’re saved by grace through faith it’s a gift of God not a but man so we can boast we don’t get the credit for you I’m talking about living life to the fullest that Jesus said I’ve come to give you life and life to the full and the enemy will put enough pressure on you so that you back up into a cave Eve and you don’t live out the calling of God under your life and the purpose of God on your life and you don’t experience the blessing of God in your life if he can get you to stay in the cave and some of us we get out and we’re sow a little seed we begin to restare that we try to step into purpose we begin to move out into gifts and callings and exploring what God has in our life and then we feel like pressure comes back on us so we go back to the cave so I get it I get why they would live in the cave the moment they try it gets ruined the moment they step forward they get pushed back again and so these caves that became prisons can become tombs and it’s easier to stay in the cave when you’re surrounded by everybody else in the cave all of Israel was in the caves it’s easy to stay in the cave when you surround yourself with cave creatures that’s what I call them cave creatures if you’re sitting by one look this way don’t say Amen right now just keep it forward you’re surrounded by cave creatures cave creatures are always looking back never looking forward cave creatures are always talking about what used to be never what could be come on Cape creatures those of people in your life that the moment you begin to take some kind of Step they want to pull you right back come on the moment that you begin to go oh you think you’re too good now oh y’all know some of them oh you think you’re too big for your britches now oh you better than everybody else now oh you’ve done going to that church now oh you just oh you holier than thou now now you’re a Holy Roller they want to keep you cave creatures are the ten spies that came back and sped a bad report all throughout the land 12 went in Joshua and Caleb came back and said 10 said they’re too big Joshua Caleb based as he said they’re too big to miss and the other ten the Bible says spread a bad report throughout the entire land millions of people affected by the negativity of 10 people be careful the voices you led in your life 10 people spread a reward 10 people exaggerated the circumstance 10 people made it look like the Bible says if you go back and read the story the Bible says that they come back and they said um the people are too big and the walls are built to the sky ain’t nobody built a wall to the sky because cave creatures exaggerate the circumstance you can never get out of that situation you’ll never amount to that why even believe for that God would never do that in that way in your life you’ll never break through this thing you’ll never come out of this generational dysfunction you’ll never break this addiction you’ll have cave creatures just want to keep you in the cave and they want to turn your cave into a tomb where dreams die in there and Visions die in there and hopes die in there and aspirations die in the cave they just made me fight if you stayed in the cave because the moment you step out they get uncomfortable because your faith shines a light on their lack of faith your hope shines a light on their lack of Hope your passion shines a light on their lack of passion your forward progress shines a light on there inaction and they want you to stay back not for you but for them because you are making them uncomfortable because of the steps that you are taking thank you and I believe the spirit of God sent me here today to look at somebody and say let me shout over every cave creature in your in your that cave I know it ain’t looking the way you thought it should but come out of the cave I was like a season but it’s not a life sentence come out of the cave I know you wanted it to turn out different but come out hey the midianites are big but come out of the cave every seed you sow they seem to wipe it out but come out of the cave you feel like you’ve been there for years but come out of the cave you set up house in the cave you painted the walls you’ve decorated it you hung pictures of the children on it but it’s time to move out get your U-Haul ready crank up the engine the spirit of God is saying get out of the Cave the spirit of God is saying it’s time to get out it’s time to dream again it’s time to believe again it’s time to Hope again it’s time to build Faith again it’s time to say I may have been stuck in the cave but this isn’t my story it’s not my life sentence I’m coming out of the cave I wish you’d shout if you’re coming out of the cave.

A few weeks ago I think it was in the message cover the spread which every Seminary needs to play it was a masterpiece on preaching whoo the Pastor said uh he said Hallelujah but how know if you remember that he said pastor Harley’s like Hallelujah but how do I do that and so I want to give you the Hallelujah but how moment how do I do this have you ever left church I know I’ve left church you never left it here but I’ve left church at time going man I’m fired up and I have no idea what to do I’m ready to charge hell I just don’t know where hell is like I don’t know what to do but man I’m inspired I want to give you the how is that all right the how Hallelujah but how I love that I’m stealing that after I say it three times I came up with it that’s the way preachers work Pastor Stephen said I once heard somebody say as I always say just so you all know that’s how it works it’s a code among preachers it’s okay verse seven it says this when the Israelites cried to the Lord because of Midian he sent them a prophet oh when you need God he’ll send you a word let me just park here for one second this is free you pray and want a solution but when you pray God sends a word and when you obey that word it’ll produce the solution there you go says this is what the Lord the god of Israel says God’s like let me remind you how we got here I brought you up out of the land of slavery I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all the oppressors I drove them from before you and gave you their land I said to you I’m the Lord your God do not worship the god of the amorites in whose land you live but you’ve not listened to me God’s like let’s just get this straight now he’s like let’s move on to Solutions so if the angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak of orphra that belonged to joash the ab is a Bez right where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press to keep it from the midianized so midians Gideon is hiding and when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon he said the Lord is with you mighty warrior he’s hiding I mean just the are y’all with me the analogy of this picture he’s hiding and God’s like he’s with you mighty warrior that’s because how you see you isn’t always how God sees you but sir Gideon replied if the Lord is with us why is all this happened to us where all the Wonders that our fathers told us about when they said did not the Lord bring us out out of Egypt but now the Lord has abandoned us and has put us into the hand of Midian and um the angel of the Lord doesn’t answer this but the the obvious answer is because you chose to you chose to do what you wanted to do and the Lord turned to him and said go in the strength you have and save Israel out of midian’s hand am I not sending you but the Lord getting asked how can I save Israel my plan is the weakest so we’re the runt of all the Clans in Manasseh and I am the least in the family so I’m the run of the runt I have no gains I don’t drink creatine I’ve never worked out a day in my life like I’m the Run and then the Lord answered I will be with you and you’ll strike down all the midianites together all right let me give you three thoughts real quick I asked the worship team to come join me because these will sound much more spiritual with a keyboard how many of you know the keyboard advice the Holy Ghost does he spoke to him and said I’m called a mighty warrior it’s the number one listen to the voice of God these are rocket science you can everybody can do these listen to the voice of God the Lord’s with you mighty warrior but let me say this to you to hear God’s voice you’re going to have to turn down a lot of other voices and I don’t know what that looks like for you and I don’t know how that plays out in your life but there are seasons in my life I’m in one of those right now where I’m just if it’s not worship or preaching or college football I ain’t gonna lie to you up here it’s not coming in through this gate or this gate I’m not saying that’s for you I’m just saying you got to find ways to turn down if the voice of Facebook is louder than the voice of God okay just saying you may have to turn some voices down God’s with you mighty warrior number two you have to start with what you got he says go in the strength that you have he didn’t say wait to get more strength he didn’t say wait till you got it all together he didn’t say wait to all the stars aligned and you feel like you got the and you got the money set up and you got the thing and all that’s in place and you’ve met the people you need to play and you got distracted now he said just go in the strength you have sometimes you’ve got to start Where You Are you just gotta take the step where you are I don’t know what that step is today but but whatever that is you just got to take the step towards towards Freedom you got to take the step towards out of the cave you gotta take the step towards just go with what you got God was like just go into strength and he goes I’m the weakest of the weakest of like I’m the run of the run of the rut like I have no strength and he goes that’s okay go in the strength that you have I think God wants you to go in the strength that you have so you know it wasn’t you that did it but it was God that did it through you and then finally Trust that God is with you he goes I will be with you I will be with you and so at the end of the day it’s trusting that God is going with us and walking with us no matter how fearful we are and no matter how trepidation if it may feel and no matter how scary and moment no matter how much out of the comfort zone it may feel it’s trusting that God will be with us our trust is where our faith and God’s faithfulness converge and it’s at that point that we feel the strength of God to help us walk out of the cave that we have Shrunk Ourselves back into and not because we are great but because God is great and so I’m not saying trust in yourself I’m saying trust in the faithfulness of a faithful God who has brought you thus far and will not leave you at this moment he goes I’m going to be with you can I speak to you right now and say God will be with you can I speak to some of you that your heart is pounding in your life I got some steps to take but I’m scared I’m saying go scared anyways but I don’t know about the outcome I’m saying go anyways I don’t know how this is going to turn out I’m saying trust God anyways because the God can we revisit something that brought children of Israel out of Egypt the God that was the cloud by day and the fire by night and the God that was the god of of the mouse sign I experience and the god that took down Goliath is the same God that is with you in this moment and can I tell you that our God even if your cave is turned into a tomb he specializes in turning tombs into testimonies if you’ll let him I don’t know if you remember but Lazarus had been dead for four days and Jesus walked up on the scene and said move that stone and he says to you today when he said to Lazarus on that day Lazarus come out of that cave I’m calling you today come out of that cave the same God is speaking to you the same God will be with you and the same God will sustain you if you’ve got faith in your heart why don’t you lift up a shout of Praise oh we believe today come on somebody shout up coming out of the cave shout it I’m coming out of the cave let every devil in hell no I’m coming out of the cave not tomorrow not next week not when you figure it all out today is the moment this is a Divine moment for you God puts you here somebody shared this worship experience with you because it’s your day to get out of the cave will you lift Your Hands to Heaven all over this place in the presence of God father I pray for every person at our campuses today at a pray for over our epham today they know in their heart that they have shrunk themselves back and limited their thinking in their life into a place you never meant for them to be and so today by the spirit of God we say come out of the cave may they take the steps in this moment they need to take may your voice rise above the voice of doubt and fear if any other voice in their life may they go in the strength they have not waiting for some other day some other time some other moment but even in their weakness may they step out and may they trust that the faithfulness of God will prove faithful once again we love you we honor you we pray this in Jesus name come on everybody said a big amen amen amen hey thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube I want you to subscribe that way you can know when we go live and post new content make sure to leave me a comment let me know what spoke to you today where you’re watching from and what we can pray for you about and if you’d like to support the ministry financially you can click the give button now and help us continue reaching people around the world for Jesus Christ thanks again I’ll see you next time