God Knows What’s Next For You | Steven Furtick

When God’s promises for your life don’t unfold the way you expected, hold onto the bigger picture. Your perspective may be limited, but God’s vision is limitless. This is an excerpt from “God Knows You Don’t.” To watch the full message from ‪@elevationchurch‬, click here:    • God Knows You Don’t | Pastor Steven F…   #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch

a lot of times when we talk about the

promises of God what we mean is the

positive outcomes that we want so we’ll

say God never breaks a promise God

always keeps his promises but in our

mental Paradigm of what that means it’s

that God will always give us the outcome

that we consider

positive what I’ve learned about God’s

promises I’m preaching already I don’t

have to scream to preach I can preach

the mic works just fine I could preach

at this volume all day long I can preach

like this and save my voice and Go sing

opera

tonight God’s promise will often be I’m

going to give you three things write

these down God’s promise will often be

different than you

pictured different than you

pictured

slower than you

wanted and farther than you

thought these three things I thought I’d

mention today

that God’s promise will be different

than you

pictured tell your neighbor it’s going

to be different than you

pictured tell them it’s going to be

slower than you wanted you and farther

than you thought than you

mhm so Abraham gets to the promised land

God speaks to him he’s like I’m going to

bless you you’re going to be a blessing

I’m taking you to a place it’s going to

be amazing and Abraham gets there and

did did you notice what the scripture

said that he lived in tense in the place

of Promise that’s where I left off last

week it is a picture of a man who is

living smack dab in the place God

promised him in the place that God would

give his descendants but he’s living

there temporarily in tents I was trying

to get you to see that sometimes you can

actually be there but not feel there be

blessed but feel stressed you say I’m

too blessed to be stressed no you be

blessed and stressed you live in tense

you live in tension between the truth

that God spoke and the things you don’t

know so to say that I have joy as a

promise from God does not mean I will

not have depression as a human

experience

one time a lady said to me I don’t want

to listen to a pastor who preaches that

it’s okay to have depression my Bible

says rejoice in the Lord and my thing

about that is to have the joy of the

Lord to claim the joy of the Lord and to

know the joy of the Lord and still feel

depressed from time to time is not

hypocrisy it’s

Humanity we live in tense

we live in tents and the tent that you

live in will all all often often

especially when you have a great big

calling on your life it will often

contradict the truth that you’re

believing that is your situation will

challenge your

faith in these moments it could be as if

you feel you are an

impostor I imagine Abraham rolling up on

the promised land like hey God told me

he was going to give me

this but none of the Canaanites that

were living in the land knew about that

none of the jebusites knew about that

none of the Hittites amorites perizzites

and since it’s Thanksgiving salul

sites got the

memo that this land belongs to Abraham

and you know what blew my mind as long

as he lived in this land it was never

really his technically speaking there

was never a transfer of the deed of the

land in his

lifetime or

Isaac’s it would not be until the time

when many generations later these

nations would possess this land that the

promise God made Abraham would evolve

into the bigger picture that he had all

along so don’t judge your life by by the

frame judge it by your

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faith I’m worried cuz I pay you to clap

and you’re the only one

clapping pay him to

play and the Lord was speaking to me

about some things that are that are

different than I pictured right now I

give you an example I’ve shared it

before I remember when we said we’re

going to have 100,000 people in the

church we do but most of them don’t come

to building

I’d like to welcome our eam all over the

world joining us online right

now but see maybe in my mind I saw that

looking one

way it looks different matter of fact

you know the first time we had 100,000

people in one in one

Sunday when there were five people in

the building for

Co that was different than I

pictured so watch God told me something

that he was going to do I believed it by

faith and it was different than I

pictured when you get there it’s going

to be different than you pictured when

you get to impact and influence

everybody wants to be an influencer

influence does not always look like

followers influence does not always look

like sponsorship influence does not

always look like friends sometimes

influence looks like something that you

invest now for something that God is

going to bring to pass later but you

have to sew it by

faith everybody say by Faith by faith so

I’m framing this situation by faith

knowing that I don’t see everything that

God has called me to see even this

Valentine building when I said it’s

different than you pictured and it’s

slower than you wanted we were on a

2year delay moving into this building a

2year delay from when we thought we were

going to move in one of the issues in

the delay was a clam that the

Environmental Protection Agency said

might be on the

property the Carolina heel splitter clam

if I remember

correctly and they had to check for six

months to see if there was a clam on the

land before we could build this building

and the clam wasn’t even here but we had

to clear the land of the potential of a

clam I never thought a

clam would cost me 6 months cuz we

already paid for the land now I’m just

paying on something that I can’t even

participate in cuz of clam cuz a little

thing because of something I never saw

coming you know you can get one text

that will back up your whole

timeline one virus can shut down a ho

but watch this we got in the building 2

years later it was slower than I wanted

it was different than I pictured but

when I welcome people online from

Nations all over the world it’s going

farther than I thought God says I’ve got

a blessing for you and when you get to

it be ready cuz it’s going to be

different than you pictured it might be

slower than you wanted but let me look

in this camera and tell you it’s going

to go farther than you thought this is a

big blessing this one’s going to Ripple

this one’s going to reach farther than

just your house I’m going to use you to

bless

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others doesn’t be a grownup feel

different than you thought a grown-up

felt

just keeping it real isn’t it different

than you pictured being a grownup

nobody’s going to tell me what to

do except your boss the

IRS and depending on your marital

Arrangements maybe the person you sleep

next

to the verse touched me because it said

by faith Abra when called to go to a

place he would later receive as his

inheritance obeyed and

went even though yall going to put the

scripture up or

what even

though he did not

know where he was

going God

knows where you’re

going let the one who set the

destination

control the

ETA you got it is that your word you’ve

been needing it to happen sooner wanting

it to happen sooner thinking it should

have happened sooner it happened for all

your friends

sooner God

knows a lot of times even when we

compare oursel to others we have no

idea the burden that they car for the

blessing that we

Envy one of my buddies has this saying

he says a lot of the people that you

envy are secretly

miserable you don’t

know you don’t know what the people you

are jealous of

Juggle and you don’t know how they’re

judged remember that young man that was

saying he was suicidal the other day and

we couldn’t believe it because because

he is so envied so

influential but deep down in his heart

he seeks the peace that many of you

possess and you would envy him for where

he is and not know that where you are is

where he’s trying to

get I just want to talk about this

today I want to talk about the lies of

arriv Ral

that it’s out there somewhere and that

when you get there it’s going to feel a

certain way maybe I should say it like

this there are no pent houses in the

promised

land so Abraham Journeys hundreds of

miles he’s got a caravan of hundreds of

people he’s responsible for a lot he’s

carrying a lot not only in the sense of

the Nations that will come forth from

him but also the uncertainty that he’s

walking in he must feel a little bit

like an impostor

and then he gets there and I said this

last week but I said it shouting so I

don’t think anybody really heard it so

now I’m going to say it again but I’m

not going to shout it I’m just going to

say it he’s a father of many nations but

he looks like a

nomad so you can look like a

nomad and actually be carrying a

nation you can look like a

Nobody But actually be carrying

something see God knows

what’s in you you

don’t God knows who’s important you

don’t God knows what needs to happen

next tell your neighbor cuz they’re

looking at me ugly I want you to help me

tell them say you don’t you just don’t

you think you do but you don’t and

neither does chat

GPT I asked hold on I did an experiment

hang tight I asked chat GP

who is coming to church today on the

fourth row in the third seat 1 2 3 4 1

two 3 chat GPT said as an AI I don’t

have

access to real time or location specific

information including details about who

might be attending your church service

or where they might be sitting this kind

of information is typically not

available

publicly and would be known only to

those present at the

service or those guess better or those

somebody say or those or those with

direct knowledge of the

attendees so I just want to Echo what

chat GPT said nobody around you really

knows what you need from God today and

even if you told them it still wouldn’t

scratch the surface cuz sometimes you

don’t even know how can someone know a

man except the spirit of a man and the

spirit of God has direct knowledge on

you oh yeah not only what you struggle

with but why you struggle with it not

only why you struggle with it but how

you can be set free from it not only how

you can be set free from it I’m

preaching to somebody fourth row third

seat the Holy Ghost knows that you’re

sitting there today for a reason for a

revelation for a release of the spirit

of God that will lead you in to a ripple

that might be slower than you want but

it’s going to go farther than you

thought cuz it he spoke

it God knows something you don’t

know he knows something you don’t know

that’s why you didn’t die cuz he knows

something you don’t know that’s why you

came to church even though you didn’t

fall asleep till 4:00 a.m. but you got

up sleeping and flick those eye boogers

off the corners of your eye and grabed

your Bible and said devil God knows why

I need I got to get in the presence of

my father in my father’s house there are

many mansers if it were not so it would

let have told me but he’s going to

prepare a place for

me Chad GPT doesn’t know that oh by the

way the people who rejected you don’t

know

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that because sometimes we think that we

need

something and God knows you don’t

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