Upgrade your view of you. God doesn’t see you through the lens of your mistakes. He sees you through the lens of grace. But it’s not how God sees you that determines where you end up, it’s how you THINK He sees you. This is an excerpt from “My Maker Is My Mirror.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• My Maker Is My Mirror | Pastor Steven… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – God Wants To Show You Something 3:54 – My Maker Is My Mirror 6:00 – How Does God See You? 8:24 – You Are Not What Happened To You 10:44 – What Mirror Will You Believe? 13:44 – Running From Who You Are Scripture References: Joshua 14, verses 6-13 Colossians 1, verse 15 Exodus 2, verse 14
the Lord has heard the questions you’ve
been
asking he’s seen the struggle you’ve
been facing and he wants to give you
something today to see it in a different
light Joshua chapter 14 a very pivotal
scripture for the nation of Israel and
for us as Joshua gives the inheritance
that God promised so many centuries ago
to the people who were walking into the
land and as he’s dividing up the
different Parcels or the Lots casting
lots to decide which tribe will live on
what lot one person takes initiative
named Caleb and I want to read you his
speech that he made to Joshua cuz he’s
trying to convince him that he’s
supposed to live in a certain place and
so he’s going to tell him some things
from his resume and he’s also going to
tell him some things and reflect on some
things that have happened and I want you
to ease drop on it today Joshua 14 verse
6 then the people of Judah came to
Joshua at gilgal and Cale the son of
Jeff I’m so sorry I got to put this in
here I wonder if it’s significant that
it’s Judah because that represents
praise in the Bible and I wonder if
there’s something about praise that
helps us to take possession of the
promises of God I just wonder that out
loud in your presence today I’m not sure
but I wonder if some of the problems
that you’ve been focusing on if you
could get in a place of Praise You might
see the solution clearly
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today we never going to make it through
the next eight verses if we keep
interrupting
so start over then the people of Judah
came to Joshua gilgal and Caleb the son
of jauna the kenite said to him you know
what the Lord said to Moses the man of
God in Kadesh barnea concerning you and
me I was 40 years old when Moses the
servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh
barnea I was just a young man just 40
years old as very
youthful
very youthful age I was 40 years old
when Moses sent us to spy out the land
and I brought him word again as it was
in my heart but my brothers who went up
with me made the heart of the people
melt yet I wholly followed the Lord my
God I didn’t let it get to me I didn’t
let it get in me what they said and
Moses swore on that day saying surely
the land on which your foot has trotten
shall be an inherit an for you and your
children forever because you have wholly
followed the Lord my God and now
behold behold the Lord has kept me alive
just as he said these 45 years since the
time that’s a long time to wait for a
promise to come to pass that’s a long
time to suffer for somebody else’s
Disobedience 45 years I survived the
Wilderness it’s been 45 years since the
time that that the Lord spoke this word
to Moses while Israel walked in the
wilderness and now behold I am this day
85 years old I am still as strong today
85 and still
flexing I’m still as strong today as I
was in the day that Moses sent me my
strength now is as my strength was then
for war and for going and coming so now
somebody shout now it’s been a long time
coming but now give me this hill country
of which the Lord spoke on that day for
you heard on that day how the anakim
were there with great fortified cities
it may be that the Lord will be with me
and I shall drive them out just as the
Lord said and then Joshua blessed him
and he gave Hein to Caleb the son of
jauna for an inheritance well look at
your neighbor and give them my title and
then I want to share a lesson with you
look at him and first of all say you
look am amazing look amazing tell them
you’ve never looked better you never
better and now tell them say I
appreciate that I
appreciate but my maker is my mirror my
maker is my
mirror they didn’t get it look at the
next person say I appreciate it I
appreciate it but my maker my is my
mirror my mirror thank you Lord for
illumination of your word in Jesus name
amen amen well let’s give him one more
shout as we take our seat
amen that wasn’t really a shout it was
more of a
murmur I going to teach you how to shout
one day like you do when your kids don’t
clean up do that but for the
Lord
amen it’s great that we get to see how
God makes a
nation he’s forming a nation he said I
want a people that can present me to the
world and he didn’t do it the typical
way because if you wanted to have a
great nation you would pick a rich one a
wealthy one and yet instead of making a
nation that was already great greater
God found a man who was too old to have
kids with a wife who was Barren in her
womb and created a great nation out of
an impossible
situation I am preaching so hard already
and I’m trying to Throttle Down but this
is a message in itself is that when God
found Abram this was before he had a
consonant in His Name the artist
formerly known as Abram he went on to be
Abraham he was the father of many
nations but when God called him his
stuff wasn’t even working anymore and
the reason I’m telling you that is
because sometimes God will speak
something over your life and you will
look in the mirror and not see
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it he’ll speak something in your soul
and you’ll look in the mirror and you
won’t see it which is so important to
know that it’s not how God sees you that
determines where your life ends up if it
had been Moses wouldn’t have died in the
wilderness it’s not how God sees me it’s
how I think God sees me that determines
where I end up I prove it to you all the
way from Genesis chapter 1 remember let
us make man in our
image God needed someone to show the
world what he looked like or else he
would have just been a concept God would
have been an abstract Theory so he made
man and one man to reflect who he was he
needed someone to show his nature
through so he made me and
you and when you insult the product you
insult the
manufacturer which is why it’s good to
know our theology that he made me from
the dust that God took something that
seemed filthy and something that seemed
finite and made something that would
reflect what is
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eternal then after making the man he
began to create not only the world the
man but a nation through Abram through
someone who seemed
unlikely and the nation of Israel spent
a whole lot of time trying to figure out
what we spend our whole lives trying to
figure out or at least our teenage years
and our 20s is
like what’s my
identity so what you’re really seeing in
Joshua 14 is not just people getting
some real estate but they’re coming into
their identity their national identity
and it’s hard because they’ve been
through so much and they started from
something so small it’s easy for them to
see themselves according to what they’ve
been through or where they
started and now they’re breaking up
there’s n and a half tribes that get
this land and so Joshua and the priest
they’re they’re shaking this receptacle
this is how they would cast lots they
would take the thing and shake it and
they would have little wood blocks with
with different codes on them and then
they would kind of Shake It Out and what
it fell on that meant this tribe gets
that land and this tribe gets that land
when Caleb interrupts the process he’s
like hold on you’re not going to figure
out where I live by just rolling some
dice okay I got a
promise Moses said now remember Moses
was the one who was supposed to lead the
people into the land but he was unable
to do it and here’s how I would put it
if I were a
preacher he got them out of Egypt but he
never got Egypt out of
them because they were oppressed for you
know 430 years and when you’ve been
under something for any length of time
when you’ve been under the power of any
influence for any length of time that
influence becomes your identity
so now your addiction speaks more to you
about your potential than God’s word
over you than than the prophetic gift
that’s inside of you it happens to all
of us when when you’ve been suffering
from something you can begin to take on
the name of your disease or your issue
trading the name of your creator whose
image you were made of but see it’s it’s
how you see it it’s how you see yourself
and I think I can prove to you if you
give me like 2 and a half minutes that
the the reason the people didn’t go into
the land under Moses was because Moses
never really saw himself in the image of
his
creator Abram did Abram did even though
he had a hard time getting with it even
though he was like you got any pills for
that or anything like that cuz I’m old
now and even though he had to wait for
Isaac and he messed up in the process
and ended up producing something that
caused him more trouble by Sleeping with
Hagar even though all of that happened
God still called him the father of Faith
the father of many nations and to show
him who he was he he brought him out of
his tent out of his limitation out of
his situation and he said okay here’s
your Revelation here’s your situation
get out of your situation and now look
up preaching to somebody look
up and he said count the Stars if you
can I don’t know how far he got before
he was like what’s the point of God I
can’t you know 343 344 what are you
trying to show me and God said as many
as they are so shall your descendants be
so shall your seed
be so he gives him an image an image not
just an idea but an
image now Colossians 1:15 look it up
real quick says that Jesus is the image
of the invisible God that’s very
powerful that Jesus shows us what what
God is like that the word became flesh
and dwelt Among Us that’s what Jesus is
he is the image of the god that we can’t
see did I get it right Colossians 1:15
that he is the image of the invisible
God this is the challenge for everybody
under the sound of my voice there is a
way that God sees you because he formed
you there is a way that you see you yes
sir there is a way that others see you
and where you go from this point forward
in your life is going to depend on which
mirror you
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believe I got all these mirrors in my
house that are messed up and I know
they’re messed up because they keep
showing me my beard is supposed to be
black but I look in those mirrors and
they’re messed up they’re defective I’m
going to take them back to the store
because they keep showing me these gray
patches like I’m 40 years old and I I
started rebuking mirrors in my house you
know these lines coming up under my eyes
and I’m like you are a liar like your
father the devil I cast you back to the
pit of Hell where this inacurate
how many ever looked in a messed up
mirror how many ever had people around
you that made you feel a certain way
about
yourself when Moses was coming into his
identity and assignment he had to deal
with the fact that he was really living
with two different images of who he was
and remember God is using Moses to
deliver the Israelites out of this
Egyptian
oppression and when Moses first first
starts to act on his impulse he does the
right thing but he does it the wrong way
he defends his people but he does it by
murdering an Egyptian so he’s ahead of
his time and he’s out of his Zone but
he’s doing the right thing but he still
doesn’t know who he is yet and it’s
difficult for him because he doesn’t
really fit in with either group that
he’s living with the Hebrews are the
people he was born from the Egyptians
are the people that he was raised by but
he identifies more with the people that
he was born from than the people he was
raised by so he doesn’t really fit in
and when you don’t really fit in to
either group you end up running that’s
what happened to Moses he he confronted
an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew one
day and he killed him and buried him but
then the next day he went out and saw
two of his brothers fighting and he was
like break it up guys you know we’re
suffering enough from them we don’t we
don’t have to kill each other and this
is in Exodus chapter 2 I want to show it
to you real quick you got it Exodus 2
the men said back to him who has made
you a prince and a judge over us do you
mean to kill me as you have killed the
Egyptian and then Moses was afraid and
thought surely the thing is known and he
ran he ran we don’t really see him in
his next uh stage of his assignment
until 40 years later he ran because he
was to Hebrew to be an Egyptian and to
Egyptian to be a Hebrew and when you
don’t really fit in with either you
don’t know who you are and you spend
years of your life running from who you
really are looking in the mirror of your
last mistake he ran and he ran and he
ran and see the question is the right
one he said who made you wowowow who
made
you but if you don’t know that you will
hand other people your mirror to show
you who you
are and let me tell you something about
people people would rather Define you by
your worst
mistake what’s crazy about Moses is he
killed a man and there’s only one verse
in the Bible about the
murder now if you let church people
write the
Bible they would have had a whole book
about it would be called The Book of
Moses’s murder the book of Moses’s
mistake the book of Debbie’s divorce the
book of your lowest moment but maybe God
doesn’t see you through the lens of your
mistake maybe he sees you through the
lens of his grace maybe when he looks at
you he sees the finished work of Jesus
Christ have you ever thought about the
fact that if they didn’t make you they
can’t Define you my maker is my
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