People can’t define your value.

In “If They Walk Away…,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church reveals that our confidence doesn’t have to be dictated by our relationships with others, but can instead be determined by our relationship to Christ.

i am confident for you in what you
can’t even believe about you right now

because we’ve never been through
this before so he’s saying borrow

my confidence you know you can do that i don’t
know what your philosophies are on borrowing money

this is fine i don’t care us we all think
different things so you’re dave ramsey you

don’t borrow or you do or whatever i don’t care
rich dad poor dad dave ramsey i’m not a money man

i’m a preacher all right so i’m not talking about
borrowing money talking about a different currency

called confidence and what you believe about
what you can be and what you believe about

what you have inside of you and what you
believe about what god called you to do

and what you believe about what you’re
going through that’s what i’m talking about

the currency of confidence

so when you’re young you start borrowing
confidence from the wrong places

you borrow confidence from sexual attractiveness

did you hear the decibel level sink down beneath
the floor it’s like oh my god he’s preaching like

it’s 20 21 it’s like people really run around to
different sexual partners partner after partner

after partner after partner after partner and
rather than ever being in a real relationship

the good part where you have to love somebody
for who they are not what they look like

you take this feeling of oh i have somebody and
you borrow the confidence of having somebody

but when you borrow confidence from the
wrong places the interest rate is ridiculous

that hit me right there

i’m talking about when you get in a relationship
where you have to compromise your values

to get your needs met y’all that’s
worse than the check cash in place

it’s an interest rate and let me tell
you another thing while i got you fired

up about all the people that you kept going
to because you wanted them to validate you

but they can’t because they’re not gone they
didn’t make you they don’t know you like that

and they have their own insecurities
so leave them alone and get it from god

hey you keep trying to borrow confidence
from people who have insufficient funds

they can’t do it they can’t they want
to they just can’t they’re flesh and

bone and blood and dirt and snot and
spit and human and stuff like you

so that’s why paul wouldn’t go into self-pity
nobody who me new blending praying for me he’s

like no i got a partner i got a partner
i’ve got a partner i’ve got a partner

i got a partner i got a partner i got a partner
saying right now i’ve got a partner wow wow wow

god gave me some people that were with me at
first god gave me some people who have been

where i’ve never been before you know when you go
through something challenging you can read a book

you are not the first one in
history who went through that

you know how many times i borrowed tom
lehman’s knowledge confidence wisdom

lisa every 9 30s that y’all would be at he would
text me before the 11 30. i would be back there in

the back trying to rewrite my message because
i would think that was horrible that’s awful

he would text me my pastor preach it just
like that again at 11 30. i’d be like huh

that was good

how many times carrie is it’s a little melody
in a songwriting session right and it’ll be like

and somebody goes oh that’s good and you’re
like it is that’s why you need partners

are you always the needy one

or can somebody else hold a little
bit of your faith for a while

are you always epaphroditus or
can you be paul sometimes too

i hope more than elijah borrows my my boosts
we’re going to get on that instagram page

with this sermon i can feel it already i
think that guy does we’re going to be on there

that’s all right but if he borrows
my shoes i hope more than he borrows

what’s in my closet

i hope god will help me get to a point kind
of where paul was in my life where it’s like

becoming confident that’s great to
borrow confidence you have to sometimes

but then there’s being confident it’s where this
is what god has called me to do this is how god

made me to do it this is what he’s given me to
get the job done this i keep hearing that this

this this this all the clothes in the world
all the money in the world i i i know that

sounds i know that sounds really like abstract
and spiritual but i promise you all of that

cannot compare

with one word from this

you forgot about david pastor no no i didn’t

because the people that
should have been his partners

the people that should have been his comrades
the people that should have believed in him

isn’t that awful when the people who should have
said you got something man keep going hey i know

that’s all right you don’t fit in but that’s
for reason you’re too big for that small place

just keep growing we don’t have
to fit in it’s all right right now

david the future king of israel comes
down to bring bread to his brothers

and his brother go back to the verse now i’m
really ready for it burned with anger and said

why have you come down here now i’m going to tell
you something david didn’t exactly know that yet

he thought he came to feed his brothers
he really came to fight for his nation

so his confidence is not in what he’s doing
his confidence is something different i will

remain confident in this that’s what he said
in psalm 27. now look at this incident it’s

not necessarily connected but maybe this
is where he started becoming confident

becoming confident becoming confident building
that confidence building the skill to walk into

a room and have enough confidence that you
don’t need to be the center of attention

building enough confidence to have people who
criticize the way you choose to live your life

and just keep on being true to what god
has put in your heart and yeah i’m going

to adjust and change but that’s a process and
this event in his life is is really indicative

of the integrity of what god was was was creating
in david because when eliab said you left those

few sheep in the wilderness he’s demeaning david
you see it you know shepherd you’re not a soldier

you’re too young for this you’re too small for
this you’re too little for this you have bad

motives all the things that people may say okay
he’s saying all of that and he accuses him and

belittles him he says you’re down there keeping
a few sheep you don’t you don’t belong here

i know how conceited you are and how wicked your
heart is you came down only to watch the battle

and david is is a little bit confused frustrated
for sure now what have i done can’t i even speak

and he turned away to someone else and brought up
the same matter and the men answered him as before

watch this his confidence didn’t come from his
big brother so his big brother can’t take it away

there needs to be a part in you that knows
i appreciate everybody and everything that

god sends me but if they walk away he
won’t if they fall short he won’t if this

brook dries up there will be a
bird in the sky an hour from now

and and and david is young but he’s confident
it’s not about the shoes it’s not about the swag

it’s not about the beliefs of other people when
will you stop borrowing other people’s bad beliefs

one that alive didn’t believe in
david elijah didn’t believe in himself

i don’t have to carry things that others
believe i don’t have to carry i don’t have

to carry things that culture believes i don’t
have to feel how culture feels about things

i don’t i don’t have to pay the interest
rate on a broken world system of thought

i don’t have to pay a
generational tax on what happened

in my great great i can break it in my
bloodline if i can believe it in my spirit

y’all calm down you’re pushing me but god
says some of you are built to break it

you’re built to break it what
they said is not your limitation

don’t let their limitation become your

insecurity

just because they can’t see it doesn’t
mean you can’t see it just because they

can’t believe it doesn’t mean you can’t
believe it and you’re like you sound kind

of cocky up here right now pastor i thought
we were supposed to be humble as christians

imagine what he took for jesus for the joy said
before him to endure the cross despising his shame

with everybody telling them come down and prove
that you’re god call the angels call your father

and he stayed up there confident on that cross
paul said i learned from the master i want to be

in the fellowship of his sufferings to participate
in his resurrection power it’s a partnership

it’s a partnership and david said i don’t need
to be partners with elia my partners with god

partners with god i have the name of the lord
and things start getting really weird after that

because saul who is the king that god is replacing
hears that david wants to go fight goliath

and he calls him over in verse 33 and said you’re
not able to go out against this philistine this

philistine this philistine what’s the philistine’s
name goliath this philistine this philistine

you’re only a young man he’s
been a warrior from his youth

his inexperience was his greatest benefit

everybody else knew too much

david was dumb enough to defeat the
enemy that they were running from

so stop saying oh i can’t
do this i don’t know enough

i got to show you something
david said to psalm verse 34

your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep
he starts reading his resume to the insecure king

and in it funny david put the same thing on
his resume that his brother used to insult him

the things that

the things that that you use to disqualify you

god’s like that’s exact that’s exactly what i
want to use that’s exactly why i want to use you

isn’t that crazy i’ve been keeping
sheep didn’t hear my brother

and watch this watch this when a lion or a bear
came and carried off a sheep from the flock i

went after it and struck it and rescued the sheep
from his mouth and when it turned on me i seized

it by its here instructed and killed it confident
your servant has killed both the lion and the bear

this uncircumcised philistine
will be like one of them

because i got a partner so what do you do
when your big brother doesn’t believe in you

and neither does your leader when you go to when
you go to get help and and encouragement and love

and support because some of you were there
man you’re like i don’t have anybody i’m not

like paul i don’t have the philippines i’m not
a puzzle it’s greece pastor steven i don’t have

holly on the front row she’s an encouraging angel
and she loves you and she does and that’s great

but since david couldn’t get it from
elia and he couldn’t get it from saul

he borrowed it from a bear

he said now wait a minute i never did this
before but one time somebody say one time

one time i was out doing my job and
there was an attack that came against

what i was responsible for and no it
wasn’t some big giant some philistine

army no i never been on this level before no
i’ve never been in this season before no i’ve

never dealt with this challenge before i never
passed her through a pandemic before but one time

one time i’m talking about first day thing one
time one time come on bring it all the way back

i know you never did this before but you did
that you did that put it in the chat i did that

i did that i did that i held on to god when i
had no job i held on to god when i hadn’t this

is for somebody this is for somebody who’s
up under a threat of intimidation right now

for something that you’ve never traveled
this way before but you did that

and the most annoying thing i read in a long time
is verse 36 this will be like one of them this

this this this god has given
you a this for every them

every enemy every insecurity every
question god has given you a this

now if you start getting distracted by them what
they’re doing where their life is how they’re

progressing what they’ve accomplished
your power is not in them it’s in this

and your confidence your confidence will follow
your focus your confidence will follow your focus

so you will start believing the fear report
like the spies who kept the whole nation from

going into the promised land because they
had a good land but they had a bad report

this is an amazing thing to realize the power
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