I know you’re tired. | Steven Furtick
Weariness is an invitation to lean into God’s strength. Let His Spirit refresh you, so you can continue to walk in your purpose with renewed hope. This is an excerpt from “Tired On The Inside.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: • Tired On The Inside | Pastor Steven F… #tired #discouragement #hope #rest #encouragement #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Being Tired Doesn’t Make You Weak 3:23 – You Are Fighting The Wrong Battle 5:35 – Faith Doesn’t Prevent Fatigue 8:19 – Sit With Jesus 10:54 – God Knows You Need Rest Scripture References: John 4
The direct route is sometimes the divine route.
Instead of hiding the fact that you’re tired,
you just say, “God, I’m tired.” Somebody
was yawning during my sermon one time,
and I just got mad about it. I said,
“How are you tired? You’re not doing
anything!” But I found out later they worked
a night shift and came straight to church.
It’s kind of hard to understand someone if you
only see them at one part of their journey.
Some people who we think are weak maybe
are weary. Have you thought about that?
Just because you’re weary, it doesn’t make
you weak. “How do you know that?” Jesus.
“I am the Light of the World. I am the
Bread of Life. I am the Resurrection.
I am the Door. I am the Shepherd.
I am the true Vine. I am the Way.”
At some point, six hours after
they left that morning, at noon,
he said something we wouldn’t expect to hear the
Savior say: “I am tired.” This is the incarnation.
I worship a God who is powerful enough to
give me strength and who is human enough to
get tired. For some reason, this week, I felt
that some of us needed to meet tired Jesus.
I thought maybe you could relate to him,
because his journey didn’t start with just
leaving that morning. I mean, that’s enough.
Six hours that day. Six hours in one day.
I mean, I have a six-hour drive coming up with
my kids, and I’m downloading every episode of
The Office on all of their phones, just hoping we
can make it six hours, still be saved, still be
married, still be healed, delivered, blessed, and
one happy family. And that’s a drive. Six hours.
Because you leave at 6:00… It’s noon. It’s hot.
It’s the heat of the day. Of course he’s tired.
Yet I wonder: Was it only physical or did
he go through Samaria because he was tired
of the way they were treating
each other? Why was he tired?
Why did he come? To abolish the
barriers. Full of grace and truth,
and we beheld his glory. His journey didn’t start
in Bethlehem. “In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh.” That’s a long trip.
From the sapphire seal of heaven to the dusty
streets of Samaria. Of course he was tired.
“Even youth will grow weary and stumble, but
those who wait on the Lord…” I’m waiting on
God right now. I’m waiting, and I’m weary. I’m
not going to lie to you. I’m weary. This is
getting old. Some of y’all want to cuss right
now. Don’t do it in the chat. They’ll block
you. But even in your mind you’re like,
“I’m sick of this. I am sick of this.”
That’s not an “I am” statement we read in
the Bible, but that’s what you’re saying
right now in your heart. “I am sick of
this. I am sick and tired. I am tired of
fighting battles.” The thing about me… Some
people say when they get tired they start
laughing. Not me. When I get tired, I get
mean. How many of you when you get tired…?
That’s why when you had to pull me out of the
elevator in Australia and I was about to fight
that guy after I preached… I had just finished
giving the invitation too. “If you’re here today,
the Lord says, ‘Come.'” That dude said
something sideways to me. My uncle taught
me to hit them with your elbow if you can
get close enough. I was cocking the elbow,
and Chunks pulled me back. I was jetlagged. I
had preached 23 times in four days. They were
preaching me to death at Hillsong Church.
I’m preaching, preaching, preaching.
Chunks pulled me out. He said, “Come on. You’re
too tired now.” Because when you get too tired,
you start fighting battles that don’t matter
to distract you from the ones that do. That’s
just me. I start fighting everybody. I
start fighting people who are trying to
help me when I’m tired. So Jesus said, “Y’all
go get lunch. I’m sitting here for a minute,
because the ones y’all have been fighting
against are the ones I came to save.”
He had to go through Samaria. He had to sit
down. There was a woman coming who needed him.
She didn’t even know it. She had no idea who he
was. He sat down because he was tired. You don’t
have to do anything right now. Just sit down
and receive this word that the Son of God got
tired. I know you’re superman and you’re mad at
yourself because you can’t always get it perfect.
Perfection got tired. Faith doesn’t prevent
fatigue; it just gives me a place to sit. He
sat by a well. Here’s the important thing:
What well do you sit by when you’re tired?
He said it was Jacob’s well. Joseph was given that
well by Jacob. A lot of what our kids learn comes
from us. It’s generational. Jesus sat down by that
well. I think that’s so appropriate to say at this
moment in our nation. What wells are you digging
for your kids to sit next to? A lot of what we’re
going through today is because of wells
that were dug before we got here. Jesus
sat by Jacob’s well. Wait on the Lord. Now
we see the Lord waiting on a woman. So,
I pictured this moment. I pictured
you and me. You have your coffee.
You’re like, “I’m drinking all the
caffeine I can. I’m still tired.” I
know you can watch a TED Talk about when
to go to bed and when to wake up and all
that. I’m not talking about that.
I’m talking about tired inside. I’m
a soul doctor. I don’t know anything about
REM. I don’t know anything about ergonomic
pillows. I don’t know anything about your
mattress number. That is not my specialty.
But I know that sometimes you have to
sit down by a real well. Listen to me.
A lot of the places that we’re sitting
while we’re tired are only making us
more dehydrated. A lot of the places that
we’re drinking from are making us dumber,
more fragmented, less whole, less informed.
This woman comes up. Picture it. She comes up
at noon because she’s sneaking away from
all of the people who talked about her.
She is a woman with a past, and the last
thing she wants to see is a man, specifically
a Jewish man, specifically a rabbi. Jesus
says, “Hey, can I get a drink?” This is not
a pickup line. This is not a surface-level
question. This is Jesus asking this woman,
“Do you even know what’s in you?”
I hear God saying to someone today,
“You don’t even know what I put inside of you.
What I have put inside of you is so great.”
If you only see things on the surface, if
you judge how people judge, you will never
see what’s inside. This was Jacob’s well, but it
was really just something for Jesus to sit on.
When he sat on the well and asked the woman,
“Can I get a drink?” he was not talking about
H2O. Don’t you get it? It’s never about what we
think it’s about. It’s always something deeper.
Jesus has showed up in this woman’s situation, and
I can’t help but think it’s for somebody today.
You have been at your wit’s end. You thought
I was going to give you a little pep talk,
and you thought I was going to tell
you, “Get on with it, and trust God,
and move forward,” and all of these little
clichés of faith, but I came to tell you, “Sit
with him a little while.” Sit with him and see
who you really are. Sit with him a little while.
I’m just going to confess to you. I’ve
been sitting by the wrong wells a lot
of the time. I’ve been depending on people to
inform me about who I am. I’ve been depending
on what I see with my eyes to tell me how
it is. But there is a well that does not
come from an external source, and you can’t
see the pipes. There is within you a spirit
that is greater than whatever is going on
around you. Greater is he that is in me!
He sat on the well so she could see
what was within her. I believe God
is revealing some things to us in this
season. I believe God is revealing to
his church in this season that he has made
us for a time when the world is so divided;
he has made us for a time that the world is so
apathetic. He sat by the well to talk to a woman
who had had five husbands and was living with
number six so she could know he was number seven.
On the first day God worked. On the second day
God worked. On the third day God worked. On the
fourth day God worked. On the fifth day
God worked. On the sixth day God worked.
What did he do on the seventh? He sat down,
not because he needed rest but because she did.
That’s what I love about a God who will not only
fight for me and walk with me and talk with me,
but God said to tell you this week: he is the God
who will come through 41 generations and go
through Samaria just to sit with you. Sit with
him for a minute. He might show you something
that is within you that nobody else noticed.
This woman had been passed around like the
jar she carried to the well that day. She
knew what it was to feel used. Did he sit
down at the well that day because he was
tired or because she was? “Are you tired
of being used by people? Are you tired
of being manipulated by people? Sit with
me. I’m not seated where you’re seated.”
When I sit with him, he has seated me with him
in heavenly places, far above every ruler and
principality. You sound tired. God said, “Me too.
I’m tired of seeing how people treat one another
too. I’m tired of the injustice too. That’s why I
came in the form of a man: so I could be what man
could never be. I came to hang on a cross and
say, ‘It is finished’ so that you can rest.”
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