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Elevation with Steven Furtick
"travis greene" Discussed on Elevation with Steven Furtick
"Can I tell you something? What this means, ladies and gentlemen, is that it's all a setup. I had this thought. In order for a way to be made, that means that a way has to be blocked. And if something is standing in between you and promise, then it has to be a setup. If there's something that you see that does not match what he said, it has to be a setup. The Red Sea for Moses was a setup for God. Jericho's Wall for Joshua was a setup for God. Goliath for David was a setup for God. Death for Lazarus was a setup for God. And so if it's in your way, tell your neighbor, it's just a setup. I wrote a song years ago called Made Away. And I wrote this song, here's what's significant about this song. I wrote it when we desperately needed a way to be made. So my wife water broke halfway during her pregnancy of our first child. The doctor literally told me, Mr. Green, I'm sorry. We're gonna take the baby. You guys can go home and try again. Obviously, he's not gonna make it. But we know a God who's still a healer. I know some people think his power stopped in the Bible. But we know a God who is still able to turn your situation around. We know a God whose blood still works. Does anybody know this Jesus that I'm talking about? And so we started praying. We started praying. My son was born at 28 weeks, two pounds. He was in the incubator for two months. My wife was in the hospital for two months. Her legs was withering away. I mean, this was a desperate situation. But this is what I need you to hear. This is where I wrote the song you made away. I did not write a song that said you'll make away. I wrote it in past tense. You ready? Because anything God's about to do, he's already done. Did you hear what I just said? Anything God's about to do in your life, it's already done. And ladies and gentlemen, this is the difference between reactive praises and proactive praises. Reactive praises wait till they see the solution. Wait till they see the victory. Wait until the x-ray is turned around in their favor. But a proactive praise is that I walk in with, I enter this gate with thanksgiving. I enter this course with praise. I got enough history with God to know that he's able to do exceedingly, among and above. Or I can ask, or think, I praise him in advance. Are there any proactive praises in elevation? Take yourself 10 seconds, lift your hands, lift your voice, and bless him like it's already done. I won't wait till the battle is over. I won't wait till my child gets beard filled. I won't wait till my marriage is restored. I will bless the Lord at all times. And his praise will continually be in my mouth, proactive. He's not going to just make a way. He's already made a way, because it's a setup. Anybody can praise him when you turn around and Pharaoh's army is drowning. That's elementary. Ooh, the enemy gone. But it take a ride or die, radical, crazy praiser, to see a sea close in front of you, or army coming behind you, and say, God, you still worthy? Because I know you didn't free me to leave me. God, you still worthy? Because if you did those 10 plagues, what is this sea? Who is this uncircumcised Philistines? What is cancer? What is depression? What is anxiety for my God? It's easy. It's easy. So God has been conditioning the unconditional worshiper in you. Some of our worship is too circumstantial, if I feel like it. Don't let Starbucks run out of your favorite drink on your way to church, or my whole day just ruined. That's a conditional praiser. But maybe God has had you in Jericho to teach you how to worship him, here it is, even when you don't feel like it. Even when your head hurt a little bit. Even when your child didn't show back up home last night. Even when Bank of America, what are you telling me right now? Come on, I just need 10 people. I gotta move in this message. I'm not gonna be greedy. Give me 10 people. I got Elijah up top, that's all I need. I need 10 people that'll give him a praise in advance. Because you know God's about to pick you up, turn your situation around. It's about to work in your favor. Grab your neighbor and tell him it's about to work in your favor. It's about to work. I feel it. I feel him turning it. I feel him shifting it. I feel him moving it in your favor. It's all a setup. Because man's setback is God's setup. Hey, hey, can you trust God in the setup? Can you trust him in the setup? See, the problem with new school Christians, y'all can sit down, I'm about to send you. It's that we act like God owes us something. That's why I like those three Hebrew boys. They said even if he don't, I'm not praising him because he will. I'm praising him because he can. So even if it don't happen like I want it to, that does not change the consistency of his character. Proactive, proactive, proactive. What's interesting about this text is that every gospel account speaks about the blind being healed. Every one of them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke John, they all talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They all talk about blind Bartimaeus. But Mark's account is a little different. Mark's account goes straight from blind Bartimaeus to the triumphant entry. This is a climactic event for Jesus' healing ministry. Next, it's Passion Sunday. Next, Palm Sunday, you know what I'm talking about. Next, he's riding in. What's interesting, I didn't really come to talk about Bartimaeus. I came to talk about Mark. This guy, John Mark, is a very interesting character. Here's why. His mom is the one who hosted the prayer meeting for Peter's miraculous prison break, which means her house was big enough, which tells me Mark was privileged. Like me. You can judge me. I'm not from the hood. I'm a military brat. I don't know what government cheat is. I have my own bathroom since I was five. I got everything I wanted for Christmas. This is Mark. Mark's cousin is Barnabas. So Mark is out with Paul on the first missions trip, and Mark is like, you know how you get hiked up and you're like, I'm going all the way. That was Mark. He was like, I'm going all the way. They get out of there. Mark was like, Paul, you crazy, dawg. It's cold. I'm hungry. Shipwreck. I ain't from the, Paul talking about, it's good that we suffer. Mark is like, man, I am going to the crib. I got to get up out of here. So Mark drops out. Paul gets offended. He starts calling Mark a coward. Barnabas says, hold on now, dawg. Barnabas from University City. He like, listen, listen, cuz. What we ain't going to do is be talking about my family like that. I mean, I know you're annoying, Damascus. Listen, that's still my cousin, man. You can't be talking about my little cousin. And so the Beatles break up. This is a true story. They break up. He's like, yo, I'm out. They leave. I'm going to tell you two reasons I'm so glad that Mark left Paul. I'm going to give you the second one later in about 10 minutes. The first reason I'm so glad that Mark left him is because Mark now is hooked up with a man named Peter. And Mark don't leave Paul. Mark don't get connected to Peter. Why is this important? I don't know if you know this or not, but Mark's gospel is actually Peter's gospel. So now Mark is his student and the whole book of Mark is Mark writing but Peter speaking. This is why it's the shortest gospel. This is why it gets straight to the point because Peter was a straight shooter. This is why it's the only gospel to talk about Peter walking on water. Nobody else talked about it. Peter was like, don't miss this one part, because I, Mark was like, got you. It's the only gospel that talks about Peter denying Christ three times. So it tells me Peter also wanted us to know his flaws. It's the only gospel that talks about getting money from fish. So Mark gets exclusive content in his director's cut. This is straight from Peter, y'all. Peter wasn't just one of the 12, he was in the top three. This is a man who walked with Jesus everywhere. He was in the inner circle. And so Mark now got the inside scoop and he's taking all of these notes, all these cliff notes, getting them down. And this is why, woo, you ready for this? This is why I'm so glad that Mark wrote this. Y'all, this thing set me all the way up. I'm so glad Mark wrote this because you gotta understand the context of the content. Mark is actually feeling like a reject. Mark is at home scratching his head, wondering, is there any ministry left in me? Mark is like, I came from a woman of faith and here I am, a ministry dropout. Is God's hand still on me? Have you ever felt like that before? Is God's hand still on me? Here I am talking about I believe God and I'm pregnant and I'm not married. Is God's hand still on me? Can God still use me? I was an entrepreneur known for taking risks, but I dropped the ball, I gambled and now I lost everything. Can God still use me? This is Mark. He's wondering, how did I get here? Peter sees him and says, there's still value in you. How does Peter know that? Because Peter also was a dropout. Peter knows what it feels like to drop the ball. He invites Mark in and Mark starts writing this and here's the reason I'm glad Mark wrote it. You ready? Because Mark knows what it means to be marked by God. If anybody knows what it means for God's hand to still be on you, Mark knows it. Here's the significant part. You ready for this? Mark is the only one who names Bartimaeus. Imagine with me, Mark's sitting there taking notes, Peter talking and he leans over and said, Peter, but what was his name? And Peter said, his name is Bartimaeus. Y'all, this thing jumped out at the pages and hit me in the heart. Because this is God's way of telling us, when you're marked by God, he'll bring your name up. When God's hand is on you, it does not matter what hand is against you. Somebody knows what I'm talking about. When God is for you, it doesn't matter who posts stuff against you. There were so many haters that thought Elevation was gonna close in year five, but look at us, not starting from the bottom, now we're here. When God marks you, it doesn't matter what giant, what disease, what famine, what hater, what devil try to rise against. I need you to punch your neighbor in the kneecap and tell him you're marked by God. That's why the car wreck couldn't take you out because you're marked by God. The part that the Jesus had to stand back and wait because you're marked by God. That's why you didn't take your own life because you're marked by God. I've been marked. Don't count me out. Don't count me out. Don't count me out. I'm marked. I brought a prop. You can't preach at Elevation without a prop. Marked. Marked. Blind Bartimaeus was marked without even knowing it. Because even when you can't see Jesus, he sees you. When you're marked, he had to die on you. When you're marked, he has his eye on you. So glad for the stick. Some of y'all are like, oh Jesus, this can go real bad. That's how I felt last week in Fort Worth. That's when God gave me this message. I was in Fort Worth with my little sister who lives there and she said, I gotta take you to Stockyard. Anybody from Texas? Good for you. I gotta take you to Stockyard. Y'all, we went to Stockyard? I said, what in the Andy Griffin? It was crispy white. Cowboy hats. I said, I'm one wrong move away. God, I'm this close to Elevation. Don't let me get killed. I almost made it to the mountaintop. Let me, at least let me get through next weekend. True story, there's an old black man, blind. He was walking with a stick. He was this close to the road. And I wanted to pull over and help him. And right before I did, a cowboy couple came and grabbed his hand. And I said, oh my God, this is a preach. Because when you're in the dark, you're not picky about who help you. Oh yeah. When you're in the dark, you're not selective about who decides to give you mercy. That's why I'm grateful for Elevation. Because it's a safe place. There's some black people that's been going here and your family like, how you following that white man? And you said, child, I was blind so long. I'm not selective about who's leading me to the light. I'm not selective about who's helping me. I'm not selective about who sees value in me. As long as he believes in the blood, the only color that matters here is red. I gotta get to the light. I gotta get out of this dark place. And here he is. There's people who think that the only darkness is sin. That's not the darkness to be aware of. You ready? It's lacking vision. And there's so many people here who've been lacking vision. You're wondering, where are you God? What happens when I obey him and it feels like he disappears? If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't lived long enough. I believe it's promises, but my situation don't look like what I've been declaring. And I'm wondering, where do I go from here? Where do I go from here? How do I get out of this? And ladies and gentlemen, this is blind Bartimaeus. He's stuck in a cycle. He's stuck in a circle. He's stuck going around lacking vision. There are people watching today from all over the world, pastors who are trying to build a church that won't grow. Businessmen who have this business plan that won't get off the ground. Parents that's believing God for your teenager who won't listen. Can I get an amen? Lacking vision. What's interesting about this, let's go back to Jericho. Bartimaeus' ancestors got into Jericho with a shout. But Bartimaeus got out with a shout. He got out with a shout, and he shouts until Jesus stopped. And the Bible says, my favorite part, that he followed him. I like this because Bartimaeus, he refused to stay where he is. Listen, I may be here, but I don't have to stay here. I may be in this abusive relationship, but I don't have to stay in it. I don't know who I'm preaching to. You're too embarrassed to tell your parents that that guy been hitting you. Child, you better get you and your tawawa and get to stepping. I might be in here, but I don't have to stay here. Bartimaeus says, I'm following Jesus. Here we go, here we go, verse 48. Many rebuked him, told him to hush, but he shouted all the more. Son of David, have mercy on me. The haters tried to silence him. I like Bartimaeus. He didn't talk to them. He didn't speak about them. He spoke above them. When God is taking you somewhere, oh, let me just park here just for one second. Quit feeling like you got to reply to all the haters online. The battles that you engage in reveal the level you're on. Next time somebody say, did you read that? Yeah, but I'm above that. I'm above that. I need you to hit somebody. Tell them you above that, you above that. And so he shouts, Son of David. This title, Son of David, was reserved, hear me, for the Messiah exclusively. So it wasn't just the fact that he shouted, it's what he said. What he was saying was that Jesus, you're surrounded by a lot of people, hear me, but they don't see you like I do. He says, I see you. I see the real you. They see you as a miracle worker. I see you as Messiah. They see you as a problem solver, but I see you as a promised one. They see you as a leader, but I see you as Lord. I see you, I see you. And his title to Jesus got Jesus to stop in his tracks. He stopped, because the only thing worse than physical blindness is spiritual blindness. Here we go, verse 49. Jesus stopped and said, call him. They said, cheer up on your feet. He's calling you. Hey, you may feel stuck, but he's calling you. You may feel disqualified, Mark, but he's calling you. You may feel under, but he's still calling you. Favorite part, verse 50. Throwing his cloak aside, throwing his cloak aside, he got up and ran to Jesus. You know why this is significant? Because the cloak is the only thing that marked you as a legitimate beggar. When I throw this on, you fall out, so they'll think I'm anointed. That's where I came from, man. He threw his cloak aside. He threw his cloak aside. He threw his cloak aside. He took off the thing that marked him as a beggar. Hear me, this is where it gets crazy. He took it off before he was healed. We gotta crank up just for a second, just for a second. He said, I don't know what you're about to do, Jesus, but I know I won't need this no more. I gotta take this off of me. Somebody put it on me, but it's not my identity. Somebody put this label on me, but it's not my identity. He put his name on me. He took off what they put on him. He said, I don't know where we're going, but I'm not staying here. I don't know where we're headed, but I'm not staying here. I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. Take this off of me. Somebody give him a praise like you're breaking out. I'm breaking free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, now, I'm almost there, I'm almost there, I'm almost there, I'm almost there. Now, he followed Jesus. Watch this, watch this, watch this. Out of Jericho to Jerusalem for the triumphant entry. Palm Sunday, imagine Peter, James, John, both of the James, Bartholomew, Judas is still there. Imagine all the boys standing there watching Jesus ride in on a donkey, and the ex-beggar, I'm sorry, when I do that, I feel the Holy Ghost. You got the Holy Spirit, I got the Holy Ghost. The ex-beggar is standing there with the disciples, scratching his head, wondering, how did I get here? How did this preach to us? Because God wants you to know. I need everybody under the age of 50 to sit down. If you're 50 and older, I want you to stand up, because this is your word. Now, there's somebody here in denial. You are, you've been 49 for 10 years, stand your buttons. Stella got her groove back. Your boyfriend think that you're 30. You is 52, stand up. This is what God told me to tell you. You may have missed some things in the past 50 years, but God's about to open up your eyes, and you won't miss his next move. Bartimaeus, I don't know what you haven't seen, but you about to see him ride in. You about to see this thing open up, and I want to talk to everybody who's half a century old and tell them you're about to see it. I don't know what you missed, but you about to see it. And the Lord told me to tell you, you don't have a problem believing God for everybody else. One of you told yourselves, as long as my child make it, I'm okay. God says you have a child, but you're my child. You're gonna see it. You're gonna see it. Go back to the diary you wrote 40 years ago. You're gonna see it. Get your vision back. You're gonna see it. Now I need everybody to give God a praise like he's about to open up your eyes. Eyes haven't seen, ears haven't heard what God's about to do in your life. You're gonna see it. All right, I'm done. This is crazy what I'm about to say. This is crazy what I'm about to say, because I haven't preached yet. I got four minutes to really preach, and I'm gonna hit that clock, because I want to come back. You ready for this? Tell your neighbor, get ready. This is crazy. The second reason I'm glad Mark left Paul is because if Mark didn't leave Paul, the Beatles wouldn't have broken up. If the Beatles didn't break up, Mark would have been in the Philippian jail with Paul homesick on Paul's second missionary trip. If Mark was homesick in the jail, then the right praise partner named Silas wouldn't have been with Paul. So maybe God caused an eviction in that last relationship to create vacancy for the right partner. Did you hear what I just said? Silas had to be there, because the Bible says at about midnight. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. At about midnight. Hey, Matt, make it dark. I know you're able. Make it midnight. At about midnight. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Hey, hey, midnight is the darkest moment. Ain't it funny that Paul and Silas were blinded by their situation, but they refused to allow their sight to silence their shout. They never asked for freedom, because all you have to do is shout loud enough for Jesus to stop. And when he stopped, he brings everything you need. And the Bible says, watch this, watch this. Bartimaeus took off his clothes. God took off their chains. I'm gonna count to three. And I want you to shout for your vision to come back. When I count to three, we're gonna shout, Matt, you're gonna turn the lights up, and we're gonna give God 30 seconds of a Pentecostal storefront praise, because you about to see again. Your family about to see again. Your business is about to see again. The light is coming back to your head. Are you ready to shout? I want you to shout the name that's above every name, for at the name of Jesus, demons tremble. At the name of Jesus, cancer streaks. At the name of Jesus, depression backs up. One, two, three, shout! CHEERING Shout for your business, shout for your family, shout for victory, shout because you're coming out of this. I'm leaving Jericho, I'm walking in the promise, I'm walking into everything God has for me. I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds it. Amazing grace, I'll preach the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, now I'm found, was blind, but I can see clearly now, the light is back on. I can see clearly now, youngness backed up. I can see clearly now, he opened my eyes again and I can see. How did I get here? Now, what's crazy, here's why your shout matters. Because when Paul in silence shouted, the Bible says not only their chains fell, but everybody around them were standing free, wondering, how did I get here? Can I prophesise some of you going back home? And your child gonna be free from that addiction, wondering how did I get, somebody prayed for me, somebody praised for me, somebody shouted for me.Lift your hands, Lord Jesus. Thank you for giving sight to the blind. Giving sight to the blind. I receive this vision. I'm gonna believe again. Because a small vision is an insult to a big God. I'm gonna see again, I'm gonna believe again. In Jesus' name, amen. Come on, give him a praise, God bless you. and tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks again for listening, God bless you.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
"travis greene" Discussed on Elevation with Steven Furtick
"Fam, that was the lowest of the lowest. They had nothing. There was no braille for reading. There were no guide dogs to help them. There was no ADA compliance. You were just stuck begging. And that is the circumstance that this man is in. But I wanna preach to the people who feel like your place that you're in is a surprise to you. The good news is that what is new to you is owed to your God. Your future is his past. Your life is a rerun to him. I watched a movie with a friend of mine named Carlen. Clearly his wife, there's no black people named Carlen. And Carlen and I was watching this movie years ago, called Avatar, the first Avatar. And this thing, people were bragging about how beautiful it is. Guys, I'm scared of everything, okay? All creatures are here below. Don't invite me to your house if you got a dog. I hate coming to your house, you be like, oh, I forgot to tell you I got a dog. You don't forget to tell somebody black you got a dog. First of all, second of all, second of all, don't forget. Let me just, and then don't tell me he don't bite. No, he don't bite you. He don't bite, he just nibbling. He got a taste for dark meat. This is, so I'm scared of all animals, right? So I'm watching Avatar, I'm freaking out. These are creatures, they're blue and running around. Supposed to be beautiful, I'm freaking out. I got my hat, I'm covering my safe. Carlen grabs me, he says, wait, don't leave. I said, Carlen, you wait because when black folks get scared, we get violent. That's what happens. We don't know, we just, and Carlen told me, he said, trap, trap, don't leave, it gets better. What qualified Carlen to tell me this is because he already saw the movies before. So when God gives you a word, I don't care how it looks. He's confident in the word he gives you because he already saw your life before. Do you hear what I'm telling you? He's not just alpha, he is omega, my God. And so there's nothing that you face that's new to him. He saw it coming, tell somebody he saw it coming. He saw it coming, he saw it coming. And so here's this blind man, and maybe he didn't know this was gonna happen in his life, but God did, and he had a plan for him anyway. Even in the low place, there is a plan. Even in the low place, there is a plan. There's another story in John chapter nine about another blind man. This story's interesting because this man was blind from birth, right? And the disciples, here's something that happened in the first century because they didn't have medical understanding. So they thought this, if you were blind, you were cursed. Clearly, you did something wrong. This is what they believed. They believed it so much so that Jesus is 12, thought the same thing. They walk up on this blind man in John nine, and they ask him, they say, hey, who sinned? Him or his parents? He was blind from birth, that's a dumb question. How he gonna sin before he was born? Dumb. And so Jesus answered them, he answered them in verse three. He says, hey man, no one sinned. Get this verse right here. But this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
"travis greene" Discussed on Elevation with Steven Furtick
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Elevation Church, wow, wow, wow. So, first of all, what we're not going to do is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in this building and all around the globe for the Pastor Steven Furtick, Holly, Eliza Graham, Abs, love you. I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just how we're going to start. We're going to start there. My roots are Pentecostal. Pentecostal is like a fraternity or something. They'd be like, that's my dog. It's not a frat, but I was going to use a headset today so I could dribble with my left hand, but I woke up feeling preachy, so I told them, give me a handheld, because we about to go up Elevation. I love Pastor Steven. He is a songwriter. He is an architect, and he is the greatest communicator in the world. To be on his platform is beyond a blessing, but something funny happened to me. I told myself that I would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. Let me tell you how gracious God is. He refused to allow me to be invited as long as I believed that, because when heaven wants to affirm you, it doesn't use opportunity, it uses opposition. I know you're anointed not by the stages, but by the scars that you got. I need you to high-five your neighbor like you in Ballantyne and tell them, I know I'm anointed. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. We know that the oil on David worked not from the throne he sat on, but by the giant that fell at his feet, and if open doors can make you, then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man to validate you. I'm afraid that in our churches, heaven believes in us, and I'm going to tell you something you never heard before, hell believes in you. This is why the devil and all his imps and wimps have been coming against you, because he know how much you carry. He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat, but if the devil has been trying to come against you and your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give God ten seconds of praise like you know no weapon formed against you. Shall prosper. Come on, praise him like you're an overcomer. Praise him like the battle's already over. I'm not praising him for a victory. I'm praising him from a place of victory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. And so I have a very prophetic word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus. Because they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, you can wear it in here or Orlando or Greenville or wherever you're watching from. I told them to send me a list. It was too long. What y'all do have is some campuses. My God. We're going to be in Mark, and it's my custom to share the title after I read the scripture, but today I'm going to share it before. I believe God is about to bring your name up. I don't know how it happened for me. I was minding my business, and chumps texted me and said, are you available? And I'm wondering, how did my name get brought up? God's about to bring your name up. Because this is the season, hear me, that God ain't looking for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm going to talk how I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's after hearts. There's so many people that can sing, man. We don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris and hearts like Jen and hearts like John. Man, we need hearts. God's about to bring your name up. Here's the title for today. How did I get here? How did I get here? Let me preach because my wife told me I take too long to transition. I'm not going to show a family picture. They're all on the ground, but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. I love you. Mark 10, 46. Then they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that you can't just read the Bible. Oh, snap, you've got to read the Bible. It's the second read. Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with the large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, which means son of Timaeus, was sitting on the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him. Don't you hate when you're sitting next to the loud one? You're like, okay, I get it. You grateful. I am too, but my God. They told him, be quiet, fam. Jesus. You ever brought your mama to church? I said, mama, I'm preaching at Elevation. Do not come. My mom be tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, be quiet, man. But he shouted all the more. I love that. Son of David, have mercy on me. I really want to preach this next verse, but I got something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. Whoo. There is a DB, if you're into audio. There is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus, a focused Jesus to stop. Oh my God. Are there any praises in the room that know how to get him to stop by? Come on, the only reason I'm in church today is because he stopped by. The only reason I'm in my right mind is because he stopped. The only reason I didn't cut somebody this week is because he stopped by. He stopped by, he stopped by, he stopped by. When he stops, anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you is easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's keep reading. You ready to sit down. He stopped by and said, call him. I like that. So they called the blind man. Cheer up! On your feet, he's calling you. Now the way my imagination works, I wonder if these are the same people who just told him to hush. That's why you can't listen to people. One second they saying hush, next second they saying cheer up! Cuz, what do you want from me, dog? I mean, throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet, came to Jesus. Here's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, hey, what do you want me to do for you? Blind man's like, ah, let me see. He said, Rabbi, I wanna see, man. I like this. Go, Jesus said. Your faith has healed you. Your shout has healed you. Your resilience has healed you. Somebody, it took your last 20 to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you. The fact that you believed in spite of what you were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word, immediately. I feel it coming, all of a sudden. Immediately. This ain't for everybody. This is just for 50 people and a two year old that can give them a praise and say, that thing about to happen quicker than you can even imagine, immediately. Immediately. He received his sight, followed Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, I'm gonna pray a prayer. You ready? How did we get here? Amen. You can take your seats. All right, how did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? This past week, I went to North Myrtle Beach. That's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from. And we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma is 92 years old. Yeah, yeah. Her classmate was Harriet Tubman. My grandma is so old. She's seen many presidents. And I walk in and my grandma, she's like Isaac. Her sight is fell on her because she's up in age. And she's sitting there with her snuff. You're not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. No teeth, but snuff. I say, my grandma had 14 kids, y'all. After 10, you don't even feel them no more. There's another child. They just, she got 14 over 40 grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like, grandma. And she's like, whoa, who's that? Get over here. And I go over to her and I say, grandma, it's me. And I can't talk, y'all. I got speech impediment if you laugh. You laughed and that was not a joke. She's like, ah, I thought it was just me. And my speech marks me. So my grandma, she knew it. And she was like, try this. That's you. I spent some time with her. Something about when your sight is felling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting about this text, I learned this from Pastor Furtick. You preach every line in the text. So the first thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means fragrance or to smell. Isn't it interesting that he's blind, but he can still smell the roses? So I want to tell you, don't allow your low place that calls you to miss the beauty of the season you're in. He's in Jericho. This is not a mountaintop message. Because most of the people who are asking, how did I get here, aren't on top. You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking, how did this happen to me? How did I get here? My last great memory was a wedding photo and now I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age of 29 when my dad died on a Sunday morning. I was five years old. How did I get here? How did I get in the back of this police car? How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y'all, don't look at me in that tone of voice. How did I get here? My life was heading in one direction and then one decision, one thing caused me to get into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How did I get here? And you may think, you may be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation's rough. Listen to me, your situation cannot compare to being blind in the first century.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from How Did I Get Here? (Travis Greene)
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Elevation Church, wow, wow, wow. So, first of all, what we're not going to do is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in this building and all around the globe for the Pastor Steven Furtick, Holly, Eliza Graham, Abs, love you. I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just how we're going to start. We're going to start there. My are roots Pentecostal. Pentecostal is like a fraternity or something. They'd be like, that's my dog. It's not a frat, but I was going to use a headset today so I could dribble with my left hand, but I woke up feeling preachy, so I told them, give me a handheld, because we about to go up Elevation. I love Pastor Steven. He is a songwriter. He is an architect, and he is the greatest communicator in the world. To be on his platform is beyond a blessing, but something funny happened to me. I told myself that I would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. Let me tell you how gracious God is. He refused to allow me to be invited as long as I believed that, because when heaven wants to affirm you, it doesn't use opportunity, it uses opposition. I know you're anointed not by the stages, but by the scars that you got. I need you to high -five your neighbor like you in Ballantyne and tell them, I know I'm anointed. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. We know that the oil on David worked not from the throne he sat on, but by the giant that fell at his feet, and if open doors can make you, then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man to validate you. I'm afraid that in our churches, heaven believes in us, and I'm going to tell you something you never heard before, hell believes in you. This is why the devil and all his imps and wimps have been coming against you, because he know how much you carry. He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat, but if the devil has been trying to come against you and your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give God ten seconds of praise like you know no weapon formed against you. Shall prosper. Come on, praise him like you're an overcomer. Praise him like the battle's already over. I'm not praising him for a victory. I'm praising him from a place of victory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. And so I have a very prophetic word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus. Because they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, you can wear it in here or Orlando or Greenville or wherever you're watching from. I told them to send me a list. It was too long. What y 'all do have is some campuses. My God. We're going to be in Mark, and it's my custom to share the title after I read the scripture, but today I'm going to share it before. I believe God is about to bring your name up. I don't know how it happened for me. I was minding my business, and chumps texted me and said, are you available? And I'm wondering, how did my name get brought up? God's about to bring your name up. Because this is the season, hear me, that God ain't looking for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm going to talk how I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's after hearts. There's so many people that can sing, man. We don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris and hearts like Jen and hearts like John. Man, we need hearts. God's about to bring your name up. Here's the title for today. How did I get here? How did I get here? Let me preach because my wife told me I take too long to transition. I'm not going to show a family picture. They're all on the ground, but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. I love you. Mark 10, 46. Then they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that you can't just read the Bible. Oh, snap, you've got to read the Bible. It's the second read. Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with the large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, which means son of Timaeus, was sitting on the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him. Don't you hate when you're sitting next to the loud one? You're like, okay, I get it. You grateful. I am too, but my God. They told him, be quiet, fam. Jesus. You ever brought your mama to church? I said, mama, I'm preaching at Elevation. Do not come. My mom be tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, be quiet, man. But he shouted all the more. I love that. Son of David, have mercy on me. I really want to preach this next verse, but I got something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. Whoo. There is a DB, if you're into audio. There is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus, a focused Jesus to stop. Oh my God. Are there any praises in the room that know how to get him to stop by? Come on, the only reason I'm in church today is because he stopped by. The only reason I'm in my right mind is because he stopped. The only reason I didn't cut somebody this week is because he stopped by. He stopped by, he stopped by, he stopped by. When he stops, anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you is easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's keep reading. You ready to sit down. He stopped by and said, call him. I like that. So they called the blind man. Cheer up! On your feet, he's calling you. Now the way my imagination works, I wonder if these are the same people who just told him to hush. That's why you can't listen to people. One second they saying hush, next second they saying cheer up! Cuz, what do you want from me, dog? I mean, throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet, came to Jesus. Here's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, hey, what do you want me to do for you? Blind man's like, ah, let me see. He said, Rabbi, I wanna see, man. I like this. Go, Jesus said. has Your faith healed you. Your shout has healed you. Your resilience has healed you. Somebody, it took your last 20 to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you. The fact that you believed in spite of what you were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word, immediately. I feel it coming, all of a sudden. Immediately. This ain't for everybody. This is just for 50 people and a two year old that can give them a praise and say, that thing about to happen quicker than you can even imagine, immediately. Immediately. He received his sight, followed Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, I'm gonna pray a prayer. You ready? How did we get here? Amen. You can take your seats. All right, how did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? This past week, I went to North Myrtle Beach. That's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from. And we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma is 92 years old. Yeah, yeah. Her classmate was Harriet Tubman. My grandma is so old. She's seen many presidents. And I walk in and my grandma, she's like Isaac. Her sight is fell on her because she's up in age. And she's sitting there with her snuff. You're not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. No teeth, but snuff. I say, my grandma had 14 kids, y 'all. After 10, you don't even feel them no more. There's another child. They just, she got 14 over 40 grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like, grandma. And she's like, whoa, who's that? Get over here. And I go over to her and I say, grandma, it's me. And I can't talk, y 'all. I got speech impediment if you laugh. You laughed and that was not a joke. She's like, ah, I thought it was just me. And my speech marks me. So my grandma, she knew it. And she was like, try this. That's you. I spent some time with her. Something about when your sight is felling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting about this text, I learned this from Pastor Furtick. You preach every line in the text. So the first thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means fragrance or to smell. Isn't it interesting that he's blind, but he can still smell the roses? So I want to tell you, don't allow your low place that calls you to miss the beauty of the season you're in. He's in Jericho. This is not a mountaintop message. Because most of the people who are asking, how did I get here, aren't on top. You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking, how did this happen to me? How did I get here? My last great memory was a wedding photo and now I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age of 29 when my dad died on a Sunday morning. I was five years old. How did I get here? How did I get in the back of this police car? How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y 'all, don't look at me in that tone of voice. How did I get here? My life was heading in one direction and then one decision, one thing caused me to get into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How did I get here? And you may think, you may be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation's rough. Listen to me, your situation cannot compare to being blind in the first century.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"travis greene" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"Ryan Kaufman with you, 5 to 2. 9872 is the number either text or call in your thoughts on the AVS Nuggets. Aaron Rodgers. College football playoff expansion. You know, whatever you want to talk about. It's your show as much as mine if you've seen Loki, let me know. If it's any good, I can't. I've been without the kids all week, so I can't watch. Low key Until they come back. Cause I'm a good father, Daniel. You didn't hear you come in to hear me Talk about Loki. Uh, let's talk about Jared Bednar, because I think that is the biggest question after last night's game is is whether A change needs to be made. In the, uh On the coaching side in order to get the AVS over this second round hump that they seem to be stuck at and and I get it. It's natural to wonder when you see a team underachieve. And either the AVS either underachieved because you thought they would win the series or they under achieved because of the way they lost the series, But either way There was a level of under achievement this year that I acknowledge and I think your mind immediately in sports goes to the head coach and whether that is the position that is, um Is the one that needs to be changed and look as the old saying goes, but it's so true, it's easier to fire the coach than the players, right? Wait. I just have this question and I'm not Trying to lead on this or anything like that. I'm legitimately just throwing out the question. And then I'll give you my thoughts on on the Subject. If you think that Jared Bednar should be gone, What did he do wrong in this series? I'm not saying he's blameless. Top down. Everyone's to blame here. Um, I will blame The Avalanche mascot. Partly for this loss. I will blame everybody. Because this is a blame everybody situation but to go from blame, too. He deserves to be fired. You need to lay out what he did wrong that prevented the Colorado Avalanche from winning this series. Did he take too long to find ways to get his first line away from Vegas First line Maybe. But Vegas had last change last night, and McKinnon and Rantanen did pretty well. So Was that the issue? Was Jared Banner, the one that allowed William Karlsson to rip the puck away from him was that Was that him out on the ice that did that? Did he get suspended for blowing up Justin Falk in the Blue Series? Did he turn over the pocket? On the blue line on Game five. I mean, these are These are the things That we look to On why the Avalanche lost this series and I don't know how much of it Can be attributed to Jared Bednar. This is a guy who since he arrived in Denver, and he arrived without much fanfare. And just for those of you who don't know the story, Patrick Waugh decided to quit. Because he was beefing with his old buddy Joe Sakic about control of the roster, so he just quit. And and That was it. He didn't give advance notice. He didn't. He did it later on in the offseason than you would like, but he just quit and just walked away. And the Avalanche were less scrambling. And there weren't a lot of great candidates and the Avalanche had to look to the A. H. L Or college in order to find their next head coach, and there were two names that really emerged from the beginning. And it was Travis Green, and it was Jared Bednar. Now. Travis Greene did not get the Avalanche job. He ended up in Vancouver. And you've seen how Vancouver seems to have squandered a pretty talented roster. So far in these last couple of years. Certainly this year. Gender. Bender comes in. And ever since he has pushed every right button. This is a team last year. That loss had more man games lost than any other decent team in the NHL. They were able to Keep up a high level of play. While having a revolving door of players because of all the injuries. This is a guy that has been nominated for the Jack Adams. Not today, by the way. Joe Quenneville of the Panthers, the head coach of the wild and I'm gagging on the third guy. Wasn't de Boer, Who's the Oh Rob Brenda more In Carolina. Who by the way, is also Eliminated from the postseason. And so is Joe Quenneville. And so is the guy in Minnesota. So There you go. I don't know that that has any correlation. It just Worth pointing out, I suppose. So this is someone who has been nominated for the Jack Adams that is pressed every right button since he got here. And neither of the last two playoff exits were at all attributed to him. Nobody blame Jared Bednar. These last two years, but he gets blamed for this one. And, uh, blame so much so That very well respected columnist. That iron due respect. I respect Woody Paige. He is a legend. Could not disagree with his latest column in an exempt more I could not disagree More. First of all, if you're going to say heads need to roll, and then you point out Patrik Nemeth and same Gerard, I don't know that that's quite going very far that quite Lines up with heads need to roll. I mean, I guess they are heads that may need to roll, but they're not the most important players. On this roster. But then he brings up Jared Bednar..