It’s not a trap; it’s a triumph! Pastor Steven Furtick shares a powerful reminder that whatever seems to be surrounding us — fear, anxiety, uncertainty, past regrets — God is actually surrounding it. This is an excerpt from “The Thirst Trap.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch , click here: 
• The Thirst Trap | Seven-Mile Miracle … #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – After All You’ve Been Through 2:51 – Living In Uncertainty 5:05 – Feeling Trapped Within 7:50 – Just When The Devil Thought He’d Won 10:15 – The Trap Will Become A Triumph 11:54 – Resurrecting by Elevation Worship Scripture References: John 19, verses 28-30 Psalm 69, verses 20-22
After all you’ve been through after all
they’ve accused you of after all the
people who walked away who should have
been there after
this after they counted you out and said
you were nothing and mocked you after
this after a crown of thorns was placed
on his head after the blood ran from his
brow after this after they beat his back
after they released barabus after this
after the cro and Peter denied him
rice after
this knowing that now all things were
finished Jesus had one more thing to
say one thing to do cuz there are 300
prophecies and he was on
299 and see everybody standing around
that day thought that
death had trapped Jesus right right
right and the cross was a
setup but it wasn’t set up by
Judas and it wasn’t set up by the
Sadducees and it wasn’t set up by the
Pharisees and it wasn’t set up by Herod
it was set up by Heaven listen to me
preach this sermon listen to me preach
this sermon listen to me preach on the
parentheses in John
19:28 I preached on a lot of things in
my little tenure preaching but I never
preached on a punctuation mark until
today after this knowing that all things
had been fulfilled knowing that he had
drank down the full cup of the wrath of
God so that you would never have to
after knowing that he suffered like a
criminal so that he could Reign like a
king after humbling himself being
obedient even to the point of death on a
cross and it was was stand Jesus
said
parenthesis to
fulfill the
scripture
huh I wonder why John put it in
parenthesis probably because he didn’t
know that’s why it was happening at the
time see when Jesus said I
thirst they thought he wanted water so
they gave him vinegar to mock him
and the thing they used to mock him was
actually the thing that he used to
finish the work God gave him to
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do the thing that they put on a sponge
to shame him was the see because listen
I got to tell y’all something stand up
so I’ll finish this sermon
please oh I got to show you one more
thing see
because when Jesus said I thirst
to fulfill the
scripture parenthesis yeah yeah have you
ever had to live in the parenthesis I
mean like not understanding why you were
going through what you were going
through please be real with me I cannot
preach this sermon to closed
Hearts I’m trying to give you water
today for your thirsty
soul but sometimes you’re in a
Wilderness and you don’t know
why and some times you’re looking at a
Red Sea and you feel
trapped and Jesus looked trapped up
there on that cross but John said
no he wasn’t trapped death didn’t trap
Jesus Jesus trapped
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death now I know why he said I thirst
now I know why why the lips that spoke
the waters into their place on the earth
said I thirst to fulfill the scripture
God has a purpose for every thirst in
your
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life death didn’t trap Jesus Jesus
trapped
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death
so one time David felt trapped in the
Psalms and in Psalm 69 he describes it
in Vivid detail he goes the Deep Waters
have engulfed me I’m surrounded by
enemies they hurl their insults at me
does this sound familiar by the way it’s
a Messianic
song it’s describing centuries before
the cross what the cross would be like
for Jesus it is David Jesus is called
the son of of David it is David pointing
to the one who now says I
thirst and David says
something that although he is surrounded
by what he calls deep Waters of
trial he says that the
reproach has broken his
heart the shame has has brought him so
low to this place that he feels like
he’s
drowning and you can get to a place
where you feel trapped in
doubt and you can’t have dysfunctions in
your life that have been there so long
that you feel trapped inside of yourself
that’s the worst place to feel trapped
not in a bad relationship I mean you can
always block that number right but what
do you do when you’re trapped inside of
your own heart your own broken
heart David said
it’s is so bad it’s broken my heart and
I am in despair I am in distress but but
watch this he said I looked for pity
there was none for comforters I found
none nobody could help me I was
trapped I was
trapped I was
trapped he said I I got to the point
where I asked my my my my my friends for
food go to the next verse and they gave
me poison for food the people who were
supposed to help me hurt
me they gave me poison for food I was
thirsty but for my thirst they gave me
sour wine to drink and now I understand
why Jesus said I thirst go back to my
scripture it it was to fulfill the
Scripture it wasn’t about water Jesus
was setting the trap for death this was
the last thing he had to do before the
spirit could be released it’s a
setup it’s a setup
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if he didn’t suffer salvation could not
spring up like a well if he did not
suffer it could not flow forth if he did
not die he could not rise somebody shout
it’s a set
up it’s not the
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end it’s in the
parenthesis it’s in the
parenthesis sometimes you got to trust
God in the parenthesis in the typ places
when it looks like you’re trapped to
know that the very red sea that feels
like it’s going to kill you it’s going
to drown your enemies behind you
somebody shouted
you there you
shout he said I thirsted and they gave
me vinegar but watch this David praying
this is what I’m praying over your life
today every evil thing that the enemy
has done to you and every trial that
feels like is sweeping over you and for
everybody who feels trapped listen what
he pray let their own
table before them the thing that they
brought to destroy me let the their own
table become a
snare and when they are at peace so just
when the devil thought he had Jesus
trapped just when he thought it was over
just when he thought we got rid of that
one just when he thought it was the end
just when they rolled the St let it
become a Trap God said I got
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to he set the
Trap he set the
Trap he set the Trap so God brought you
here into this Garden so you could sweat
out your insecurities God brought you
here here into this tight place so that
your doubts could die and your faith
could
live and you will
never
thirst
again he said I thirst and they brought
him vinegar and he said good I need that
I needed that vinegar I needed that
trial sometimes Victory doesn’t look
like
Victory sometimes victory doesn’t taste
sweet and when he said I thirst and they
gave him the the vinegar for
water after that after he had received
the sour wine after he had set the trap
on death Hell In The Grave I promise you
we’re going to have the best Easter ever
this year I feel like Easter came early
today I really do I really do I really
feel like Resurrection came in an
unexpected time for somebody who thought
you were trapped hear the word of the
lord it’s not a trap it’s a Triumph
shout to
God
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so so Friday’s trap was Sunday’s
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Triumph I set
up a thirst set the Trap and after he
had received the sour wine he said it’s
finished it’s
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finished the Trap became the
Triumph God’s going to take the thing
that looks as the children of Israel
they thought the Red Sea was going to be
the end of them it was the end of their
enemies you’re not trapped the devil
is you’re not trapped
you’re not touch somebody say I’m not
trapped come on I’m not trapped and I’m
not thirsty whom the sun sets
free
now how many believe that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to
be compared with the glory that will be
revealed how many believe Christ is in
you the hope of glory come on shout like
you believe that shout like you come on
gast
so I’m going tell you one more thing and
I promise I’m going to walk off the
stage while I’m saying
it I love to preach the word to you not
cuz I like to hear myself talk I love to
preach the word of God to you because I
love I I know what this seed is going to
do if you get it down in your
heart huh now watch
this favor flows from unexpected places
do you remember when we were writing the
song
resurrecting and
it took about nine months to write the
song and everybody on the team
contributes in different ways my thing
is I like I always like to write and
Chris can tell you this because we’ve
been knowing each other forever and uh
y’all give it up for Chris Brown this
man is a great man of God
well I’m kind of weird cuz I like to
when the song seems like it should be
over I always like to put another verse
that’s true right so we wrote the song
and it was kind of done not really done
we thought it was done and we finished
the songw writing thing and I started
thinking I wanted to write this fourth
verse for for this song and you know
Chris is kind of lazy cuz he’s a worship
leader and uh no I’m just kidding he’s
the hardest working man in the praise
Biz
but
so it it took 6 months to get the verse
right but we ended up writing a
declaration for our church lift your
hands whatever’s got you trapped today
we end ended up writing this verse to
let you know that what looks like it’s
got you locked
in is going to be the place see that’s
what the grave was the grave of Jesus
Christ was a garden in Disguise that’s
what your trials are that’s what your
weaknesses so I want you to sing this
fourth verse cuz just when it seems like
the song should be over just when it
seems like your hope is gone just when
it seems like the devil has
dehydrated your
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dream the tomb where
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soers so they thought they had him
right they posted the guard right
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there
and now if he robbed the grave of its
power if the the guards couldn’t keep
his body in come on Church come on I’m
talking about rivers of Living
Water you never thirst again when you
get this
Spirit and the same
spirit that raised him from the dead you
better SE that for first cuz I got is
around got God is
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your name your
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