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Let Go Of What You Can't Control | Steven Furtick

May 30, 2021
This is

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I discovered. I discovered that it really doesn't matter who causes it. If it's from God or if it's not from God...sometimes I really don't know the difference. What I know is that

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ever happens in our lives, it has to happen through his hands. So whether it came from his hand or from the enemy is not the most important thing. The most important thing is whether I will associate myself with what God is doing even if it is not what I prefer. Will I resist it, push it away, or accept it? The Israelites are being delivered from Pharaoh, and just at the moment when freedom is in sight, just at the moment when it seems that they are going to arrive in this land flowing with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanites and the Perizzites and Hittites and Jebusites and "cellulite" and all these enemies we have to fight in this modern world...
let go of what you can t control steven furtick
That's a real enemy: cellulite. Some of you are fighting the virus of overeating right now. But listen to what happened when they got there. Pharaoh changed his mind and said, "What have we done?" Listen to verse 5. “We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” "So he had his chariot prepared and took his army with him. He took six hundred of the best chariots..." The enemy uses the heaviest artillery against the people who carry the greatest purpose. If many things come against you, that means that God has put a lot in you. One of the things God is showing us in this season is what he put in us.
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And do you know how he's doing it? Closing out everything around us, because sometimes the only way you can see what's inside you is that everything that's not inside you... I'll say it like this. When I preach to a crowd, sometimes I get carried away by their energy, but when I'm preaching and there are only three people in the room... Something different has to kick in. Sometimes the Lord allows something around us to close, to go out. die, so that something inside us can come to life. Pharaoh said, "I changed my mind about letting them go." Today's message is called A Lesson in Letting Go.
let go of what you can t control steven furtick
There are so many things we are learning right now. We may not know that we have learned it until we have passed through to the other side. You don't really realize the life lessons until later. Do you know it well? It's after you say, "Oh, it was good for me that I was grieving, because this taught me that. Oh, it's good for me that they told me no, because I didn't want to date them anyway. If I had married them "I'd be in therapy right now." Many times it is later when we see the lessons. Now we can read about Exodus 14.
let go of what you can t control steven furtick
You know, the children of Israel. "Wow. They should have trusted God through the Red Sea. God was going to make a way." It's easy to say that on the other side. It's very easy to look back and say, "Well, he blazed a trail where there was none," but that's when you look back. What really requires faith is to look at something and believe that it will make a way when you can't see it. A lesson in letting go. God told Moses from the beginning that freedom will not come easily. Certain freedoms in our lives must be forced.
That sounds bad, but it's true. The only way God frees us from certain things is by taking them away from us. Sometimes what God allows to be removed from our lives is as important as what he allows to come into our lives; However, this is a season when many of us have to learn to appreciate things. Remember what I said last week? The things you were complaining about in February you would be praising God in April...all the annoying people. You just wish you could have a different cast of characters than the four you're stuck with.
I found that the number of people who say they are finding a rhythm in quarantine depends on the size of their house. It's like, "Oh yeah, man! This is cool." Or how big your kids are. Or for some people, it's whether they have any human interaction. So, I've been thinking a little bit about the fact that many times in my life the lesson that God is teaching me is to appreciate something. This is what I want to ask you: What is God teaching you to appreciate in this season? Very simple but perhaps worth reflecting on. I'll wait for you to respond.
You say, "Well, God is teaching me to appreciate my livelihood. Honestly, I was so caught up in what I didn't like about my job that I forgot the fact that having one is a blessing that I can't take for granted." "Sometimes the only way God makes us appreciate something is by allowing it to disappear for a while. That doesn't mean this global pandemic is a plague sent by God, but I think God can use it to teach us to appreciate some things. Don't Is that so? I wish they would let us come back to this church and sing "Rattle." I wish they would.
I tell you, the first time Elevation Church comes back and sings "Rattle" in person... I've been watching you all online. Y'all You guys are losing your mind online. When we walk into a building and sing it, you better wear a motorcycle helmet. I wish they'd let us get back together. Man, we're really going to have a great time, but you know what? The very thing we long for today is something we've been living for so long that God is teaching me to appreciate some things. He's teaching me to appreciate some things that I had become so accustomed to.
You get used to the things that God gives you until the point that you can get used to the people God gives you. You can get used to simple moments. Things that used to be annoying, you learn to appreciate. What is God teaching me to appreciate in this season? Isn't it interesting how all the children of Israel wanted to do was get out of Egypt, get out of Egypt, get out of Egypt? But when they crossed the Red Sea into the desert, they wanted the food they had in Egypt. It was necessary to leave Egypt to really appreciate it.
God was trying to get them out of there, but there are some things we must appreciate, and we can only appreciate them in seasons when we no longer have them in the same form. God is teaching me to appreciate some things. He is revealing to me things I didn't appreciate enough, things I took for granted, things I thought would always be that way. One of the things that is happening this season for all of us is that God is not only teaching us to appreciate certain blessings, but he is also reestablishing the foundation of what we consider a blessing.
The Bible says, "All that he has, let him praise the Lord." "All that you have, praise the Lord." Sorry, it's been a while. Maybe I'm rusty on the Scriptures. "Let everything that has breath..." That is the new basis for being grateful. Before God gives us a new blessing, he wants to give us a new foundation. Did you just breathe? Praise him. Still here? Praise him. Did it wake you up? Praise him. Did he hold you? You may not like the taste of manna, but if you have some to eat, praise it. You may not like who you're sitting with on the couch, but praise them that you have someone to sit with.
Take that hand, squeeze it and say, "If you have a pulse, congratulate him. If you have breath, if he gave you one more day..." Why am I yelling? There is no one in the room. My new baseline for praising him is simply, "Thank you for keeping me alive. You're all over me. You kept me sane. I should go crazy, but you did it anyway." "In view of God's mercy, offer your body as a living sacrifice." I'll start with the fact that he kept me one more day. I'll start with the fact that he didn't owe me real estate today.
I start with the fact that the dividing lines have fallen in places that are pleasing to me. He is my portion. He is my strength. He is my rock. The storm may come, but it cannot bring down my house. A new basis for praise. So, not only is he teaching me to appreciate some things and not only is he resetting some things, but he's also teaching me to release some things. If you're a

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freak and want to stay that way, log out right now. If you are a

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freak and want to stay one, you better search for dance videos or cat videos in the YouTube box right now and get off this stream, because right now I'm going for every control freak, because I am one.
God is homeschooling us right now. God is teaching me some things about deliverance. I promised you that he would give you this illustration, because he comes to mind all the time. Chris has been in the small exercise room we have in the house. I'm so grateful for that little workout room, because sometimes I hide in there for like six hours a day. I'm not too proud to tell you. That's one of my secrets to surviving right now. I don't even lift weights half the time. I don't even lift weights a tenth of the time. However, it makes me feel good to be around some dumbbells.
Honestly, certain sermon ideas come to me when my body is in motion, so I try to incorporate both. But the other day I had this memory of when... I guess about three years ago, my elbow started hurting all the time, and Chunks said, "That's called golfer's elbow." He used to be a physical therapist, so I said, "I know you went to school for this shit, but I never played golf, so you're going to have to explain to me how I got golfer's elbow." "I played golf twice in my life with my dad after he drank a six-pack of beer, and neither time did we finish the nine holes because we did so poorly. "I have never played golf as a grown man in my life. , so explain to me how I have golfer's elbow." Is it golfer's elbow?
Yes. I can never remember. There is tennis elbow and golfer's elbow, and one is one thing and the other is the other, but what I wanted to tell you "It's just that my elbow hurts. I told him my elbow hurt because I've been lifting too much weight. Isn't that the way men explain things? "The problem is that I've been lifting too many weights. They are 95 pound dumbbells. "I've been trying too hard." He said politely, because I pay him, so he has to say this a certain way... he said, "Actually, it's not the amount of weight that caused the injury." It's not how much weight you were lifting;
It's how hard you were holding onto it." I'm going for the control freaks. I go for the people who even when they pray for their children, they are not really praying; you are simply giving God a list of ways to make them not in his image but in yours. I'm going for everyone who had a plan for this first part of the year and now can't find the rhythm. You can't find your rhythm. It's understandable and it's completely normal. What Chunks told me... This is so powerful, and I'm going to say it much better than he said it, but this is how I heard it.
I heard him say, "You could lift a lot more if you loosen your grip." You can lift so much more... God said, "If you hold it differently, you can handle it." So this is what I'm noticing. If I take it day by day or hour by hour or moment by moment, I'm fine. It's just when I get too far away or too far away...Either one is a mistake. I can stand Sunday on Sunday, but I can't stand Saturday on Sunday, and I can't stand Monday on Sunday. This is the day that the Lord made. Forgetting what's behind...
I can't fix that. I have something clutched behind me and I cannot go towards what God has placed before me. But I continue towards the goal of the prize of high vocation. God said, "You can get there if you let yourself go." Let go. Oh man! That he preaches so well. Why is it so difficult to do? "Let go and let God." "Uh huh. Are you going to pay my electric bill?" "No, but let it go and let it go to God." "Well, God didn't offer me a rent check." "I know, brother, but let it go and leave it to God." I don't think it's really about letting go of your responsibilities.
It's about releasing the things you could never control to begin with. All God is doing in some of our lives in this season is showing us how little control we had in the beginning.

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