Been Here Before | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

voice from the mountain. God was already

here

. When you get to the next season w

here

you're still trying to plan, but you're worried about tomorrow, so you don't trust today, realize that God is already in your tomorrow. God is already in it. He said, I will go before you and take those Anakims and subdue them like a devouring fire. Verse 3 is the juice. I have to give you this juice right here. God said, "I will go before you like a devouring fire." Watch what God will do. "He will destroy them..." Who? He! "...he will subdue them before you." WHO?

He! "And you will drive them out..." "I thought you were going to." The word of the Lord says that he will go before you, but he will not do it for you. You will expel them, not with your own strength or with your own power, but with their process. I decree and declare today... God said, "I will not always bring it to you. I will bring it to you." Now you must decide whether to move forward. When your children ask you about your anakites, what will you answer? When your children ask, "How were you able to stay alive and continue to trust God through what you went through?" How will you answer the question about your anakites? "Well, you know, I just gave up.

It was really hard. I stopped going to

church

because I was hurt in that

church

. I just stopped trying because I felt so unworthy. I just stopped trying because everyone else was stronger." and higher and better than me." Or are you going to tell them a story that says, "He brought me manna from the desert and water from a rock. He brought me to a promise and I had to fight for it. I had to fight every day to have joy. I had to fight to put food on the table. I had to fight to overcome what was said about me.

I had to fight to overcome the diagnosis. I had to fight for every inch we got but we lived in it, because if God is for you, who can be against you. ? For the giants you face, there is a God who is bigger. Today I impart to your soul the faith of the living God. He lifts up your hands and receives it. Who can cope with depression? Who can resist the history of sin and shame? Who can resist the grave? Who can resist defeat? Who can stand? God can, and you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.

You've

been

here before, honey. You've had to trust God before. You've wondered if he would work before. You've felt this before and your faith has only grown stronger. You're not going to die in this. You've

been

here before, and when you get to your future, God will say, "I got here before you." Because he knows the plans he has for you. The Lord is directing me to pray for those who are in a season of wilderness. It is a time to examine what you thought you wanted and what God really promised. It's a moment when you learn to trust.

It is a time when God prepares you or, as one preacher said, he prepares you for what he is preparing you for. Thank you, Lord, for the tables you have set. Thank you Lord for the victories you have planned. You said you would expel them quickly. Oh, it's been a long time since some of us revived our faith, God. Today I thank you for giving me the word that you will go before him. You will go before her. Put your hand on the shoulder of the person on either side of you and simply say very quietly, "God will go before you." Say it again. "God will go before you." Tell them, "Don't worry.

He's already there." Oh, believe this, God, believe it, receive it, live like it, step on it, walk in it. If I delight in you, you will grant me the desires of my heart. That means that you will put the new wishes, the ones you want. We thank you for the desert where you sifted some things. Cristed relationships. He set priorities. You christened beliefs. We thank you, because if we didn't pass it, we wouldn't be prepared. Now, Lord, as we stand on the precipice of the promises that You have made and that we have not yet possessed in our lives, we want You to have Your good and perfect work in us, so that we can trust You.

Your promise, your word... will be fulfilled. Well, thank you for joining us today for the message and we trust that God spoke to you right where you are as we are in this year and season if God is speaking to your life and you would like to start tithing or giving further. We invite you to visit

elevation

church.org. There you will find all the information available so you can participate in the end of the year offering. If you haven't started tithing, we always encourage you to start there. Put God first. in the air of his finances and start tithing and make it part of his daily life.

If he already does, he would like to go further and help expand the ministry here at Elevation Church. He can also do it until the end of the year. offering all you have to do is click on the banner at

elevation

church.org you can select the campus you are a part of if you are part of our online community select online and if you are part of one of our physical locations make sure to select one of those campuses and then you will be able to select how much you would like to donate and be a part of all that God is doing here at Elevation Church again.

We thank you for being part of the family here and we can't wait to see how God works in and through your life as you open your hands and ask God to use you right where you are, thank you for being a part and may God bless you.