The blessing of letting go is grace. In “Let Go! You’re Not in Control,” Pastor Steven Furtick teaches us that there are some blessings that only come from releasing our control and holding on to God. This is an excerpt from “The Blessing Of Letting Go.” To watch the full message from@elevationchurch, click here: 
• The Blessing Of Letting Go | Pastor S… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – You Can’t Control God’s Will 2:17 – It’s Time To Let Go 4:22 – God Has A Blessing For You 6:39 – Stop Disguising Yourself 8:54 – Yes, I’m Blessed! 11:07 – Keeping Your Blessing In Balance 13:33 – You Don’t Need Approval From People Scripture References: Genesis 32, verses 26-28 Genesis 27, verses 18-19 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9
and for all of the Christian control
freaks which is an
oxymoron CU God I give you my life as
long as I’m married by age 23 God I give
you my life as long as this job
opportunity opens up in the right market
and I like the climate as well as the
School Educational
scene God here’s our children we devote
them to you and Lord Jesus I believe
that she would make a great worship
leader in the church just like that girl
Tiffany and she should sing just like
that I know she’s not blonde but will
dye her hair Lord and she could be just
like that Tiffany that would be
wonderful but I give them to you
Lord and so the interesting thing for me
has been in my life how to have a real
commitment to
Christ without trying to
control his will in my
life how to how to be
serious about my relationship with God
while staying surrendered to The God Who
I’m in relationship with this is not as
easy as it
seems because you will find yourself
often really really committed to trying
to get God to bless you committed to I’m
really going to get my life together
committed to I really want to be free
from these patterns committed to I want
to be an example make a difference have
an influence make a mark fulfill a
purpose really committed to that but
then
commitment becomes
control and you cannot follow Christ and
have
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control I’m
sorry I want it to be where you
can I want it to be where Jesus lets you
code
him where you get to give him the
commands and you get to give the thing
but I every time I read in the Bible
he’s given the
commands every time in my my life he
brings me into something new he takes me
through something
scary every time in my life he sets me
free from something that I don’t want to
give me something that I do want I
cannot reach toward what he’s giving me
without letting go of what I
held and there are a lot of us who are
not going to get what we need from God
in this
season until we let go of what we held
to in the
previous there are some blessings that
only come through holding on I’m telling
you sometimes you have got to get around
a promise from God and say I don’t care
how many things blow against it I don’t
care how many things shake it up I don’t
care how many years pass I am holding on
to what God
said there are blessings that only come
from holding on that’s Jacob he’s like
no you’re not leaving until you bless me
I need a blessing I got a fresh battle I
need a fresh blessing I got a fresh test
I need a fresh blessing you are not
leaving I am not going to let you go
unless you bless
me and then God
says but I cannot bless you unless you
let
go let go
of the way you thought it was supposed
to
go let
go of your comparison to other standards
that have nothing to do with who the
Sovereign God called you to be let
go of the expectations of perfection
that you have for yourself that can only
be satisfied through the perfect work of
Jesus and has already applied to your
account let
go there are some
blessings that you can get by holding on
oh yeah Jacob was blessed his father
blessed him he got the blessing of the
firstborn double inheritance the
blessing of the firstborn the naming
rights of the children the patriarchy of
the whole nation he got blessed by
Isaac but he didn’t get blessed
yet as who he really
was so you say wait a minute you read me
a scripture and you said that the key to
being blessed was holy
on and sometimes that’s true but I want
you to read just a little bit further In
this passage and see what the real
blessing that God wants to give you in
this season I believe God has a blessing
for you in this season that your eyes
haven’t seen yet that your ears haven’t
heard that hasn’t entered into your
hearts that you will be speaking about
for years to come but watch
this there is a blessing that comes from
holding on
persevering there’s a blessing that
comes through tenacity then the man said
let me go for it is Daybreak but Jacob
replied I will not let go unless you
bless me now watch this on the surface
so far it seems like that Jacob got this
blessing the way that he got every other
blessing and maybe right now you’re
trying to do it like you always did it
and it’s not working and you’re trying
to face it like you always faced it and
it’s not working but watch what the
angel said and this is the turning point
in this transform transformative
experience
for Jacob and for you but Jacob replied
I will not let you go unless you bless
me and the man asked him what is your
name
Jacob he
answered then the man said your name
will no longer be Jacob but Israel
because you have struggled with God and
with humans and have
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overcome when he said what is your name
it reminds us of 20 years ago in Genesis
27 when Isaac called his son to bless
him he thought he was talking to Esau
because he was blind and he said who are
you and the voice came back saying I am
Esau but it wasn’t Esau it was Jacob in
two days there will be enraged
Christians on social media arguing about
Halloween is it right or is it not right
to celebrate Halloween we will not
discuss that in this Pulpit today that
is not the purpose for which God sent me
but I will tell you one thing that God
is very concerned about anytime you
dress up as something that you’re
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not come on Church anytime you start
putting on clothes anytime you start
putting on personas anytime you start
putting on something that doesn’t come
from who God made you to be anytime you
start dressing yourself disguising
yourself trying to gain the acceptance
or the approval is always a trick and
it’s never a treat and God says I don’t
need you to be Esau to bless you cuz
when I bless you I’m going to bless
you the real
you the short you the tall you you the
old you the new
you God said when I bless you you won’t
have to pretend about anything you can
just praise me because I am the source
of your strength and the strength of
your
life high five three people say yes I’m
blessed yes I’m
blessed and so Jacob was already blessed
but he didn’t know who he was and God
said after all I’ve done for you do you
still not know who you are you’re my
child you’re the head and not the tail
you’re blessed you are redeemed from the
pit you are blessed you are chosen and
loveed as the apple of his eye you are
blessed you are an overcomer you are
blessed you are the purchased of God you
are blessed you are blessed you are
blessed to be a bless
and now shout like you know who blessed
you cuz when you know who bless
you you know who to go back to when you
need some more of it hey God it’s me
it’s your boy it’s your daughter it’s
your child I need
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you I 5 11 people say yes I’m
blessed I’m not bragging but I’m blessed
I’m not perfect but I’m blessed I’m not
100% honest all the time but I’m blessed
let me just be real with you he has
blessed me with every blessing in
spiritual places I got it in the
Heavenly realm now I just got to bring
it in my
life the Bible says he blessed him there
in the place of his real name you know
what God wants to give you today a
surrender of who you thought you were so
you can receive who you really are I
wonder is anybody ready to receive who
you really
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are I gotta warn you Z man I gotta warn
you it’s not like changing your name to
Hollywood Hogan it’s not like changing
your name on wrestling it’s not that
kind of wrestling match sometimes oh God
this is so difficult for me to
communicate to you but I hope that you
can hear it sometimes it is a letting go
that feels like
death but it’s really a
blessing and I confer upon you today and
impart to you in the name of Jesus
Christ your savior the
blessing of Letting
Go Letting
Go not when you’re driving
home that’s not the time to let go
that’s the time to drive the
car
and I going to say that there are some
of us in
here that are saying I won’t let go till
you bless me God I won’t let go till you
bless me I hear the Holy Spirit saying I
can’t bless
you until you let
go you hear it you hear it you hear it
when God showed me that it was like oh I
don’t want to really admit that that’s
the way it works because this goes
against my control freak Christianity
that I invented that is nowhere in the
Bible
I want to achieve this thing I want to
earn this
thing and that’s why God gave us the New
Testament example of
Paul because he said man I was stacking
stuff that I
did I was stacking successes in a
spiritual religious realm that amounted
to status that you wouldn’t imagine a
Pharisee of Pharisees a Hebrew of
Hebrews of The Tribe of Benjamin
circumcised on the eighth day I studied
under G or
what but all these things I count as
loss and yet in order to balance these
great Revelations that God gave me I was
given a thorn in the flesh a messenger
of Satan sent to Buffet
me you’ll always have a buff butt to
Buffet you and the bigger the blessing
the bigger the
buffet to keep in
Balance so you know where your source
is as a matter of fact Paul said I had
the storn in My Flesh and three times I
asked God to take it away three times I
asked God to do it you’ve been asking
God to change something in your life and
he won’t do it this is your verse right
here 2 Corinthians 12:9
but he said to
me Paul the great Apostle who took the
mission of Jesus Christ to sites that
had previously seemed too distant
who spoke with eloquence and yet
Simplicity Christ crucified but did it
in a way that the philosophers were
confounded Paul said I was given a thorn
in my flesh along with all my blessings
I’m blessed don’t get me wrong I saw
Jesus on the road to Damascus I preached
with such power that people were
converted that people that cities went
into Riot I was so blessed to be able to
do that yes I’m blessed but I had a
thorn and I asked God to take it away
and he said no
but my
grace is
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sufficient
that’s the blessing of letting
go of the way you thought it was
supposed to be is that you get the grace
to accept what it
is and that’s where the transformation
is that’s where the power is that’s
where the Revelation is is what is your
name he said Jacob I’m not pretending to
be something else anymore I’m not
striving to be something anymore I’m not
going to dress up like anything anymore
for all of you that think you need
approval from a person you don’t need
approval from a person if the person
gives it the person can take it but if
you get it from God it can never go away
let them say what they want think what
they want do what they want write what
what they want take what they want leave
what they want I’ll never be alone not
when God is with me I might look alone
but I’m not
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alone the
blessing of letting go is Grace can you
imagine all your life like Jacob you
have been running to chase something
that you thought you needed to be to be
successful that you thought you needed
to be to be whole that you thought
thought you needed to be to be worthy
that you thought you needed to be
because your father didn’t give it to
you that you thought you needed to be
because nobody ever spoke it over you
can you imagine the moment of release
when the angel said all I want is you
what’s your
name and when you say your
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name when you say your
name you
receive his
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