In “Your Thoughts Are Hurting You,” Pastor Steven Furtick teaches us how to trust God’s promise and be content with the process He’s given us to get there. This is an excerpt from “Not Dead Yet.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• Not Dead Yet | Pastor Steven Furtick … #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Have You Been In A Wilderness Season 2:06 – God Wants To Set You Free 4:19 – How To Think Clean 7:01 – Is This Best For You? 9:40 – God Has Done Big Things For Me
God works in your weakness
God works in your waiting it’s not the
promise
it’s not the past
it’s the wilderness
the Lord sent me to somebody today who
has been in
A wilderness not physical
because he brought me from a place Egypt
but I’m not already all the way to the
place heaven
and I’m still here
and I think this might be the best way
to say it
I’m out of Egypt
but I’m not sure Egypt
is out of me
I’m in the world
I’m not of it
but there are some patterns
because one day I’m going to be with
Jesus and I’m going to sing around this
throne and sit at his feet forevermore
and I’m going to play a harp
but I’m not there yet
cause I’m not dead yet
and the only time I’m gonna be free from
this conflict is for me to be free from
this body
but as long as I’m in this body yeah I’m
I’m brought from a place I’m rescued I’m
bought with a price I’m redeemed
but I’m caught in a pattern I’m
wrestling
I’m wrestling between this is where I
came from this is where I’m going this
is what I’ve done this is what he’s
doing and I’m caught in a pattern so
this is what I needed to tell the
nutritionist okay stop cussing at me
stop criticizing me stop acting like I
don’t exercise six days a week I work
really hard at this
I need to be taught
through a process
clap your hands Embrace God
for his process
that God doesn’t drop an F-bomb on you
just because you messed up again
that he could but he didn’t
he is taking his people through and he
is taking you through a Wilderness
experience
where there’s not much water and there’s
same old scenery and it’s not exactly my
home and here I am living this life
and he’s teaching me he he brings them
okay The Book of Leviticus is actually
amazing y’all that’s why it’s love
idicus I love it I love it now I love
this book of the Bible he gives them the
offerings that they need to make whether
it’s a thanks offering whether it’s a
fellowship offering whether it’s a peace
offering whether it’s a sin offering
whether it’s a guilt offering any of
those five offerings he shows them how
to do it hey here’s how you do it hey
here’s how you cut it up hey here’s
where you offer it here’s how you offer
it here’s who offers it here’s the
priest here’s what they wear here’s what
they do here’s when they do it all of
this is not to limit them
but deliberate them
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he’s a liberator
he brings me into places he brings me
into spaces he brings me into challenges
he brings me into dilemmas to set me
free from my flesh
to set me free from my feelings to show
me this is how you do it and I need him
to teach me
I need God to teach me a different way
to do it
because honestly the ways that I tried
without him do not work for very long
oh they can get me what I want right now
but they actually leave me in Greater
bondage than I was before
and I love the Lord
because he’s
a teacher
he’s been teaching me lately
not about shellfish
definitely not about monitor lizards and
wall lizards and
what did it say you can’t eat the skink
what is a skink I heard of the gecko I
see his commercial during football every
single Saturday
while I’m studying and uh
but the skank he said nah don’t eat that
and what what if you see it now like not
not about
eating clean because we know those
dietary restrictions were for that time
but the way that you think
about you
the way that you think about God
and the way that you think about your
life
isn’t this
what God is always teaching me
is how to think
like he thinks
about what I’m going through
about how to think
like he thinks about what is best for me
one of my favorite scripture says my
thoughts are not your thoughts says the
Lord that means there’s a big gap
between great big God and little bitty
Stevie
that means what he thinks and what I
think are not automatically aligned
every morning I gotta get in sync with
God
so I can think like he thinks
and he says don’t eat the skink
don’t eat the skank
why because I want to teach you
to discern
so that when you go into these
neighboring nations in Canaan you won’t
do what they do you won’t think like
they think you won’t try to win like
they win you won’t fight like they fight
you won’t worry like they worry you
won’t respond like they respond you
won’t react like they react God is
teaching me to think and if I don’t let
him teach me how to think but I just
quote the promises of the Bible verse
watch this to have confidence in God’s
promises but not commitment to his
process
is delusional
imma say it to the safe side of the room
if I got confidence in God’s promise oh
he can do it but I don’t have a
commitment to his process that is not
depending on God that’s called denial
because we just want to believe over top
of all of our behaviors that don’t line
up with the word of God but yet he loves
me and he’s not waiting on me to act
better for him to love me but I don’t
love him like I should if I don’t get
taught
the process
of figuring out is this what God wants
for me
I don’t have to do that with fish
anymore but I do have to do it with
feelings
I don’t have to do this with shrimp but
I do have to do it with contacts in my
cell phone is this good for me
when is the last time that we really let
God speak is this best for me and if he
tells you that’s not best for you I
don’t want that for you I didn’t bring
you out of Egypt for you to bring Egypt
into your future I want that out of your
life I want that out of your heart I
want that out of your mouth
now
God keeps telling me I’m too negative
and I keep telling him no I’m just
realistic
and God keeps saying stuff like okay
that’d be great
since you want to do my job and tell me
what’s good and what’s bad
and I’m like well God
you know this is kind of the way I think
and he’s like but it’s not the way that
I think
because I can face the facts but speak
in faith
so the Lord has been interrupting me a
lot lately
telling me this is unclean for you
this is hurting you
this is hurting you and you’re not
getting to Heaven because you’re holy
you’re getting to Heaven because I’m
holy and because of what I did for you
because I brought you bought you
but the devil has caught you
so now it’s time that somebody
taught
you
I feel bad for Moses
he’s the one who had to teach these
people these things
y’all
I find it hard to stick to my diet for
myself
now you got to get two million people
to study insects
in order to eat in a place where there’s
already not much water
it’s harder than we make it sound isn’t
it you know it’s not hard to say certain
things okay the Lord said don’t commit
adultery
it’s harder to discern sometimes in your
attitude
is this really how God wants me to think
about this
is this really what God wants me to say
about this is this clean
or unclean is this God’s will for me or
is this the way that I’ve known that
feels familiar to me so am I going back
to Egypt
instead of following Jesus forward
they were out of Egypt
the Egyptians were dead but guess what
the things they learned in Egypt were
still alive
yeah I’m dead to sin I’m alive to Christ
great
but we still have to deal
with these little things
I love the contrast because
God did a big thing for him he parted
the Red Sea
that’s a big thing how many agree that
watching a major body of water part is a
miracle
how many agree that’s big
oh come on you clap better than that
over your parking space this week at the
gym
oh the lord gave me a parking space he
parted the waters
that’s big somebody say it’s big
big God has done big things for me if
there are three people that God did
something big for you since last Sunday
give him a big praise right now on the
level he blessed you on I mean he did a
big thing for me he did a big thing for
me guess what it was he woke me up
that’s not big if you didn’t know this
he woke me up he started me on my way
and he watched over me so I could be in
the number one more time I’m Grayson he
did it big he did it big he put it in
the set he did it big he didn’t do it
small he did it big so that everybody
would know it was the Lord he made a way
high five like we won something and tell
your neighbor he did it big he did it
big he did it big God is a show-off he
doesn’t give you a boat he Parks the
water he said I want you to know this
one’s on me so you’ll give me the glory
so you’ll give me the praise Pharaoh’s
not gonna let you go unless a mighty
hand compels him so guess who has a
mighty hand my god’s got a great big
hand
and a long arm and he can do big things
big things
don’t ever let people make you feel bad
if you’re an exuberant praiser a big God
gets a big Praise on the level that he
did it that’s how loud I want to let him
know I appreciate
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big things
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big things he opened a living way you
understand how much I survive you
understand how many times I almost gave
up you understand what I went through
it’s a miracle I’m sober it’s a miracle
I’m saying it’s a miracle I’m preaching
it’s a miracle you’re praising it’s a
miracle we survived it
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cause they brought me and he bought me
with his redeeming blood
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go ahead go ahead go ahead go ahead go
ahead go ahead go ahead big things big
face big things might not be big to you
maybe you grew up in a different
household maybe it’s no big deal to you
but it’s a big thing to me it’s a big
thing the breath is a big thing to me
it’s a big thing to me
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