If They Walk Away… | Steven Furtick

i am confident for you in what you  can't even believe about you right now   because we've never been through  this before so he's saying borrow   my confidence you know you can do that i don't  know what your philosophies are on borrowing money   this is fine i don't care us we all think  different things so you're dave ramsey you   don't borrow or you do or whatever i don't care  rich dad poor dad dave ramsey i'm not a money man   i'm a preacher all right so i'm not talking about  borrowing money talking about a different currency   called confidence and what you believe about  what you can be and what you believe about   what you have inside of you and what you  believe about what god called you to do   and what you believe about what you're  going through that's what i'm talking about the currency of confidence so when you're young you start borrowing  confidence from the wrong places you borrow confidence from sexual attractiveness   did you hear the decibel level sink down beneath  the floor it's like oh my god he's preaching like   it's 20 21 it's like people really run around to  different sexual partners partner after partner   after partner after partner after partner and  rather than ever being in a real relationship   the good part where you have to love somebody  for who they are not what they look like   you take this feeling of oh i have somebody and  you borrow the confidence of having somebody but when you borrow confidence from the  wrong places the interest rate is ridiculous that hit me right there i'm talking about when you get in a relationship  where you have to compromise your values   to get your needs met y'all that's  worse than the check cash in place   it's an interest rate and let me tell  you another thing while i got you fired   up about all the people that you kept going  to because you wanted them to validate you   but they can't because they're not gone they  didn't make you they don't know you like that   and they have their own insecurities  so leave them alone and get it from god hey you keep trying to borrow confidence  from people who have insufficient funds   they can't do it they can't they want  to they just can't they're flesh and   bone and blood and dirt and snot and  spit and human and stuff like you   so that's why paul wouldn't go into self-pity  nobody who me new blending praying for me he's   like no i got a partner i got a partner  i've got a partner i've got a partner   i got a partner i got a partner i got a partner  saying right now i've got a partner wow wow wow god gave me some people that were with me at  first god gave me some people who have been   where i've never been before you know when you go  through something challenging you can read a book   you are not the first one in  history who went through that   you know how many times i borrowed tom  lehman's knowledge confidence wisdom   lisa every 9 30s that y'all would be at he would  text me before the 11 30. i would be back there in   the back trying to rewrite my message because  i would think that was horrible that's awful   he would text me my pastor preach it just  like that again at 11 30. i'd be like huh   that was good   how many times carrie is it's a little melody  in a songwriting session right and it'll be like and somebody goes oh that's good and you're  like it is that's why you need partners are you always the needy one or can somebody else hold a little  bit of your faith for a while   are you always epaphroditus or  can you be paul sometimes too i hope more than elijah borrows my my boosts  we're going to get on that instagram page   with this sermon i can feel it already i  think that guy does we're going to be on there   that's all right but if he borrows  my shoes i hope more than he borrows what's in my closet   i hope god will help me get to a point kind  of where paul was in my life where it's like   becoming confident that's great to  borrow confidence you have to sometimes   but then there's being confident it's where this  is what god has called me to do this is how god   made me to do it this is what he's given me to  get the job done this i keep hearing that this   this this this all the clothes in the world  all the money in the world i i i know that   sounds i know that sounds really like abstract  and spiritual but i promise you all of that cannot compare with one word from this   you forgot about david pastor no no i didn't   because the people that  should have been his partners the people that should have been his comrades  the people that should have believed in him   isn't that awful when the people who should have  said you got something man keep going hey i know   that's all right you don't fit in but that's  for reason you're too big for that small place   just keep growing we don't have  to fit in it's all right right now   david the future king of israel comes  down to bring bread to his brothers   and his brother go back to the verse now i'm  really ready for it burned with anger and said   why have you come down here now i'm going to tell  you something david didn't exactly know that yet he thought he came to feed his brothers  he really came to fight for his nation   so his confidence is not in what he's doing  his confidence is something different i will   remain confident in this that's what he said  in psalm 27. now look at this incident it's   not necessarily connected but maybe this  is where he started becoming confident   becoming confident becoming confident building  that confidence building the skill to walk into   a room and have enough confidence that you  don't need to be the center of attention   building enough confidence to have people who  criticize the way you choose to live your life   and just keep on being true to what god  has put in your heart and yeah i'm going   to adjust and change but that's a process and  this event in his life is is really indicative   of the integrity of what god was was was creating  in david because when eliab said you left those   few sheep in the wilderness he's demeaning david  you see it you know shepherd you're not a soldier   you're too young for this you're too small for  this you're too little for this you have bad   motives all the things that people may say okay  he's saying all of that and he accuses him and   belittles him he says you're down there keeping  a few sheep you don't you don't belong here   i know how conceited you are and how wicked your  heart is you came down only to watch the battle   and david is is a little bit confused frustrated  for sure now what have i done can't i even speak   and he turned away to someone else and brought up  the same matter and the men answered him as before   watch this his confidence didn't come from his  big brother so his big brother can't take it away   there needs to be a part in you that knows  i appreciate everybody and everything that   god sends me but if they walk away he  won't if they fall short he won't if this   brook dries up there will be a  bird in the sky an hour from now   and and and david is young but he's confident  it's not about the shoes it's not about the swag   it's not about the beliefs of other people when  will you stop borrowing other people's bad beliefs one that alive didn't believe in  david elijah didn't believe in himself i don't have to carry things that others  believe i don't have to carry i don't have   to carry things that culture believes i don't  have to feel how culture feels about things i don't i don't have to pay the interest  rate on a broken world system of thought i don't have to pay a  generational tax on what happened   in my great great i can break it in my  bloodline if i can believe it in my spirit y'all calm down you're pushing me but god  says some of you are built to break it   you're built to break it what  they said is not your limitation don't let their limitation become your insecurity just because they can't see it doesn't  mean you can't see it just because they   can't believe it doesn't mean you can't  believe it and you're like you sound kind   of cocky up here right now pastor i thought  we were supposed to be humble as christians imagine what he took for jesus for the joy said  before him to endure the cross despising his shame   with everybody telling them come down and prove  that you're god call the angels call your father   and he stayed up there confident on that cross  paul said i learned from the master i want to be   in the fellowship of his sufferings to participate  in his resurrection power it's a partnership   it's a partnership and david said i don't need  to be partners with elia my partners with god partners with god i have the name of the lord  and things start getting really weird after that   because saul who is the king that god is replacing  hears that david wants to go fight goliath   and he calls him over in verse 33 and said you're  not able to go out against this philistine this   philistine this philistine what's the philistine's  name goliath this philistine this philistine   you're only a young man he's  been a warrior from his youth   his inexperience was his greatest benefit everybody else knew too much david was dumb enough to defeat the  enemy that they were running from so stop saying oh i can't  do this i don't know enough i got to show you something  david said to psalm verse 34   your servant has been keeping his father's sheep  he starts reading his resume to the insecure king   and in it funny david put the same thing on  his resume that his brother used to insult him the things that the things that that you use to disqualify you   god's like that's exact that's exactly what i  want to use that's exactly why i want to use you isn't that crazy i've been keeping  sheep didn't hear my brother   and watch this watch this when a lion or a bear  came and carried off a sheep from the flock i   went after it and struck it and rescued the sheep  from his mouth and when it turned on me i seized   it by its here instructed and killed it confident  your servant has killed both the lion and the bear   this uncircumcised philistine  will be like one of them because i got a partner so what do you do  when your big brother doesn't believe in you   and neither does your leader when you go to when  you go to get help and and encouragement and love   and support because some of you were there  man you're like i don't have anybody i'm not   like paul i don't have the philippines i'm not  a puzzle it's greece pastor steven i don't have   holly on the front row she's an encouraging angel  and she loves you and she does and that's great   but since david couldn't get it from  elia and he couldn't get it from saul   he borrowed it from a bear he said now wait a minute i never did this  before but one time somebody say one time   one time i was out doing my job and  there was an attack that came against   what i was responsible for and no it  wasn't some big giant some philistine   army no i never been on this level before no  i've never been in this season before no i've   never dealt with this challenge before i never  passed her through a pandemic before but one time   one time i'm talking about first day thing one  time one time come on bring it all the way back   i know you never did this before but you did  that you did that put it in the chat i did that   i did that i did that i held on to god when i  had no job i held on to god when i hadn't this   is for somebody this is for somebody who's  up under a threat of intimidation right now   for something that you've never traveled  this way before but you did that and the most annoying thing i read in a long time  is verse 36 this will be like one of them this   this this this god has given  you a this for every them every enemy every insecurity every  question god has given you a this   now if you start getting distracted by them what  they're doing where their life is how they're   progressing what they've accomplished  your power is not in them it's in this and your confidence your confidence will follow  your focus your confidence will follow your focus   so you will start believing the fear report  like the spies who kept the whole nation from   going into the promised land because they  had a good land but they had a bad report   this is an amazing thing to realize the power  of your this hey thank you for watching make   sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't  miss a single video or live stream and share this   video with a friend and don't forget you can join  me live every sunday thanks again for watching

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Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021