Hey Devil! The Attack Didn’t Work | Steven Furtick

and I want to help in this new year to

set a trajectory for your faith that you

can believe that God is going to use you

to make a difference wherever you are

tell somebody next to you uh you’re a

big

deal ask them can I get a selfie with

you in fact pull out your phone right

now would you do that just real quick

real quick pull out your

phone pull up your camera

app put it in selfie

mode

and point it right at that beautiful

face of

yours and when I say three I want you to

take a picture are you ready come on

we’re going to do this together and

there’s a reason for it um when I say

three I want you to get a picture real

quick are you ready on every location if

you’re ready say

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ready one two

3 cool put your phone

up

I just wanted you to have

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proof I just wanted you to have

proof because all this year the enemy is

going to try to get you to think that

you can’t make

it and that your faith isn’t strong

enough and that you don’t have what it

takes and that you can’t survive the

storm and when he does that I want you

to pull that picture up and remind him

that he told you that same BS at the

beginning of

2019 I’m sorry it’s late my filter comes

off at

10:30 and I want you to have

proof that the weapon may be

formed but it didn’t work last time and

it won’t work this

time and so when he comes in your face

trying to make you think this is the end

and you can’t do it and you’re not

enough and you are not significant I

want you to show him that selfie how you

were in church for the last hour of

2019 and all through the next 10 years

just flash it at the Devil and say I got

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proof you know we so easily

confuse the presence of God with the

absence of

problems the goodness of God with the

absence of problems I’m preaching

already and I haven’t read my verse 2

Kings chapter 6 verse 8 how many of you

this is your first New Year’s Eve ever

in

church how many of you if I knew what

you were doing last New Year’s Eve I’d

be really proud of how much progress

you’ve

made

wow you’re my my

favorite in 2 Kings chapter 6 there is

an

illustration of what happens in these

moments where we must make a decision

whether we are going to view our life

through faith or through fear and I want

to share it with you from 2 Kings

chapter 6 beginning in verse 8 and

please pray for me because I take these

moments seriously not so much just to

give you a lesson where you can write a

few things down or a few tweetable

quotable lines but to really speak

something over your life that will bring

to closure some of the conflict that

you’ve been going through so that you

can transform it and convert it into

power for what’s ahead of you that’s why

we came tonight and that’s what we

intend to do in 2 Kings chapter

6:8 the Bible says now the king of Aram

was at war with Israel after conferring

with his officers he said I will set up

my camp in such and such a place the man

of God sent word to the king of Israel

beware of passing that place because the

arameans are going down there so the

king of Israel checked on the place

indicated by the man of God time and

again Elisha warn the king so that he

was on his guard in such places

this enraged the king of Aram he

summoned his officers and demanded of

them will you not tell me which of us is

on the side of the king of Israel do you

know how mad you made the devil just by

showing up

tonight I mean he set so many traps for

you this year tried to make you bitter

tried to make you envious of others

tried to keep you in a depression

ression I know you’ve been going through

things he tried he couldn’t get you to

go crazy so he started messing with your

kids he thought if he could get your

kids to go crazy enough maybe you would

lose your hope in God even some people

in your life left this year that you

were counting on and after all of that

here you are the Bible says it enraged

the enemies of Israel because no matter

what they did to try to bring down the

king God had someone on the inside to

warn them about it tell the person next

to you I got somebody on the

inside and it makes the devil mad and it

makes him a little bit confused and

honestly it makes him nervous to see you

praising God like you’ve been praising

God

tonight I mean this that some of you

just by lifting your hands tonight you

caused all kinds of confusion in

hell not only have Angels been watching

you this year but the demons have been

watching you too the ones that were

assigned to wreak havoc in your mind and

they thought surely by now you’d be

tired they thought surely After all

you’ve been through you would skip

church and sleep in but look at you in

the presence of God to confuse the

enemy now we need to take 19 seconds and

embarrass the enemy to let him know that

what he

did it didn’t

work then what he did it hurt but it

didn’t

work you still got 11 seconds on the

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clock read my

scripture I’m reading my scripture this

is a dignified moment

you chaotic church

members well he was mad because

everywhere he wanted to attack Israel

God’s chosen people there was a there

was a

uh I don’t want to call him a spy he was

a prophet

Elisha he had an ability to see things

and you think Siri is

scary

really Alexa scares

me how stuff starts showing up on my

phone and I think Alexa is talking to

Siri and Siri is talking to Google and

Google is talking to Instagram and I’m

terrified that they’re listening to me

now watch this this is

interesting because the spirit of God in

Elisha would give him a a location where

the enemy was going to attack God’s

people and when they called together all

of the the different high-ranking

officials to see who is the one who is

spoiling our ambushes and causing our

attempts to attack the people of God not

to work the response came in verse 12

none of us my Lord the king but Elisha

the prophet who is in Israel tells the

king of Israel the very words you speak

in your bedroom

yikes so everywhere

that Israel

travel God would send a word through

Elisha to tell them where they needed

verse 10 says to be on their guard in

such

places tonight I want to tell you that

for this year

2020 you know like 2020 Vision yeah for

this year you need to see some things

with your

spirit that you cannot see with your

senses come on and the reason this is so

important is because if you don’t

recognize where the enemy is attacking

you the most frequently and ask God to

give you insight into the places of your

greatest

vulnerability you will spend all of your

energy this year fighting battles that

you could have avoided if you would have

learned the lessons of last

year

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y’all don’t like this part of my

sermon I know makes you mad when you

realize that a lot of the battles that

you fought you could have

avoided if you had listened to what was

on the

inside instead of responding to what was

on the

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outside so I I want to spend this year

with what Paul called Open Eyes in my

heart it sounds grotesque when you

describe it like that but he was saying

that there is a kind of sight that does

not revolve around external

stimuli and it is more based on internal

processing if I could break it down even

more for you I would I would use this

phrase on his guard in such places to

describe how I think God intends to

protect you as you go into this next

season this next decade of your life and

that requires

self-awareness there’s a theological

term progressive

revelation it means that while God never

changes our understanding of him unfolds

over time not necessarily

chronologically but as we experience

different things in our life we come to

see God in different ways even the Bible

is constructed with the progressive of

Revelation in mind so that you see

Concepts introduced in the Book of

Genesis that are mirrored in the Book of

Revelation that’s the first and the last

and by the time you get to Revelation

you get a full picture of what was

hinted at in

Genesis so you see types and shadows in

the Old Testament which ultimately point

to Jesus Christ but they’re pointing to

something that you have not clearly seen

yet life is this way it is that many of

us in this season of our life are going

to see things that we only saw a shadow

of in a previous season of our life

progressive revelation means that God

wants to show you some things about

himself and even about you that will

cause you to be able to avoid what I

call

unnecessary roughness it’s a football

term but it also applies when we’re

going up against the devil

and let me help you with something real

quick some of the battles that you

fought last year were in places that you

never should have

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been I know it’s supposed to be a praise

party but before we party can I preach

for a

moment I got 24 minutes to tell you

about this that there are certain places

that you need to stay away from this

year because if you go there and then

ask God to protect you in those

places I don’t I don’t know whether to

start with

Facebook or whether to start with CNN or

whether to start with Fox News but we

have to be very careful about where we

go watch this not just with our bodies

but with our

minds

because it is very possible that God is

trying to warn you about certain places

that every time you go there you start

feeling judgmental or every time you go

there you start having comparison or

every time you go there you start

feeling like your life is missing

something and if I were you I would put

that Bible app on the front screen of my

iPhone this

year for those of you who aren’t saved

yet you might have an Android but you

could put the Bible app on there

too and I would find that thing that

deletes some of the other apps and can

we all just make a covenantal agreement

in the presence of God on this the last

sermon of

2019 let’s all not post our workouts

until we have been doing them

consistently for at least four weeks

this year can we do

that

now look at somebody and say I don’t

have to post it to prove

it cuz if I do the work you will notice

the

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soon