Invisible Prisons | Maybe: God | Pastor Steven Furtick

let's get into the scripture now the book of Matthew chapter 11 verse 2 and 3 and as I share this with you today I pray that it'll be a very personal experience for you Matthew chapter 11 verses 2 & 3 when John who was in prison heard about the deeds of the Messiah he sent his disciples to ask him are you the one who is to come or should we expect someone else and really let's focus on the first part of that when John who was in prison you'll find my message right between those commas in that little clause when John and here's the phrase who was in prison today I'd like to speak to you about invisible prisons invisible prisons and let's pray one more time God you hold the keys you have all authority you're sovereign and we believe that you can do anything now enable your servants to have the kind of faith that will connect with heaven get us past the point of our own perspective and help us to see things like you see them for a few minutes we believe that if we do things will change in our lives in Jesus name I pray amen you may be seated OCD my Bible was on the wrong side of the thing I have to keep it a certain way and you know it's funny when you when you're married to somebody you notice all these little things about them now listen this is not hyperbole Holly Furtick is pretty much the perfect wife we don't have the perfect marriage but she's like you know nine point nine nine nine nine nine out of ten on the wife and even look at me look at me I'm not just earning points up here trying to get something started in the afternoon after I preach I promise you she really is and even when we miss each other just by that point zero zero zero zero zero one it's usually just she's even trying and sometimes it's just like she loves me so much it messes things up you know like she used to introduce me we would go to the different campuses and have a campus vision night and so we'd be like at University City or at River Walk the artist formerly known as Rock Hill and she'd get up to introduce me like she'd read the scripture greet the people and she would tell them now in a few moments our pastor is gonna come preach and let me tell you it's gonna be a good one tonight and they cheer a little bit and she'd say yeah I mean I'm telling you he's been studying all day I mean to tell you he hadn't come out of his room I went in the room and he was on his face on the carpet seeking God and worshiping God and then on the way over he had a napkin out and he was writing his sermon notes on a napkin and he's just fired up and I've never seen him this fired up and I think tonight might be the best message that he's ever gonna preach in his life and I'm like shut up this is too much pressure like I cannot take the expectations just like ah like everything she says it's like I can't possibly make it this good you know get up and tell him I've been sick and uh the kids have been crazy and it's just a miracle that I'm here and then you know I could just jump over that you know I could dunk on that set the goal about five feet I could dunk on that you know what I'm saying she puts it up so high I can't possibly reach it it's about expectations marriage is about expectations I could preach a seminar on that let's do it another time because it's just the idea of when you don't understand someone's expectations you can't make sense of their disappointments and faith when you get to the essence of it is an expectation a confident assurance that a negative circumstance still holds the potential to produce great purpose in my life come on shout on that I'm gonna teach y'all where to shout y'all been coming to church too many years to not know where the shouting part is that's the shouting part means I can walk into something dark and light it up because of my faith because the light of the world lives in me you say Jesus is the light of the world absolutely he is but guess where he lives it's an expectation faith is an expectation to know that even if the sequence of things doesn't make sense in my life that God who lives outside of time because he is eternal knows the end from the beginning so then I have to trust him with LMNOP if he is Z and A and if A is related to Z because he is Alpha and Omega beginning and the end the first and the last my faith is an expectation that before the movie even starts he's already shot the closing scene it helps me to know today that I don't have to live in suspense as to whether or not I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living because faith is an expectation faith enables me to wake up in the morning knowing that surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and since this is one of the days of my life goodness and mercy are my bodyguards one on right and one on my left you can't see them they're invisible but if you look real close I've got security touch somebody say I got security goodness and mercy the favor of the Lord is the filter through which I view the fights of my life knowing this that he who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it don't know when don't know how not even sure what he's doing yet but my faith gives me an expectation now unto Him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine according to his power that works mightily in us not according to my preference not according to my understanding or the finite finite you know small little puny way that I tend to come at situations but my faith is an expectation and this expectation is contagious talk about um talk about expectations man John the Baptist who we just read about he was he was really really familiar with the pressure of high expectations because he was a miraculous miraculously born baby and an angel prophesied his birth and in fact when his mother Elizabeth got pregnant you know his father Zechariah was so shocked by it that he told the angel it couldn't happen because they were kind of old and so his expectation you know with age one thing can happen with age that's good you can get experience but it can diminish expectation do you know what I mean by that I'm looking for over 40 because I'm not there yet I'm familiar with this but John was born but before he was born you have to understand that he was the voice that prepared the way for the Lord that the entire nation was expecting to deliver them from oppression that was their expectation of the Messiah they looked for for hundreds of years in centuries so that this generation that was alive at the time the birth of Christ had heard the stories the rumors and the rumblings about the possibility and potential of his coming into the world and this expectation from their heart was that he would then set them free from oppression whether economic or political or deliver them from their their circumstantial containment there's there's an expectation and one thing you got to do when you have an expectation is make sure that you connect yourself with people who have a similar expectation and this is important because expectation is contagious say that out loud expectation is contagious those of you watching this message you didn't get to be with us in worship I had everybody in the church turn to each other and I had them check with their neighbor and make sure that their neighbor was the right neighbor because I don't want them sitting next to anybody who's not expecting God to speak today just gonna play something on their phone you know candy crush or whatever game is popular now I don't play that stuff I read my Bible in my free time I'm just kidding I read my Bible and watch YouTube in my free time but I was just having them check you know because expectation is contagious here's how contagious it is when John the Baptist was still in Elizabeth's womb an angel appeared six months after Elizabeth got pregnant with John the Baptist to Mary who was a relative of Elizabeth now you know Mary Mary did you know from Christmas she was told that she was gonna have a baby and she hadn't had relations and it's kind of hard to believe a revelation that completely contradicts the circumstances surrounding it so the first thing that she did when the angel left was go into the hill country to see her relative named Elizabeth because the angel said she's also expecting the best thing you can do when you are expecting is to get around somebody else who's expecting if you get around somebody who's expecting your expectation will rise that's why I come to church to be honest with you because you know what I could watch it on my phone but there's something about being in an atmosphere with people who are also expecting you know what if you're watching this message in your house next time you watch it invite somebody over and y'all drink some coffee together and get some get some expectation between the two of you and get a Bible and break out your Bible and stand up on your feet while I'm preaching even if you're watching in your kitchen if you got somebody next to you grab them right now and tell them I'm expecting something and what I need is somebody who will help me with this expectation because if I don't get around somebody who's expecting something this is so real this is so real that we've got worship leaders in this church who lead worship and don't even have a microphone because when we were pulling in today Graham who's 11 said to me we listened to Hezekiah Walker on the way to church today so I had the car bumping on the way in the parking lot and then we moved over into Israel Houghton circa 2006 and then we pulled by the the parking team and do you know what my son said to me when we pulled by the parking team he said I love that guy now this is Graham Graham has never even said he loved me but he was like I love him you can tell he's excited Graham never said I love Chris Brown he never said it once ever but that parking attendant Graham said he does so much for our church what could we do for him but it was a childlike faith and I promise I'm going to talk about John the Baptist in a minute but it's the craziest thing that when somebody is also expecting you know it created an expectation even in the parking lot my son felt something what he felt though he didn't know it was the Holy Spirit in that man the Holy Spirit in that man who didn't need a microphone he had an orange baton and he was expecting that when you pull in my parking lot you're pulling up on holy ground so get ready something good I'm expecting something so when Elizabeth and Mary got together Mary said oh I just got bumped Mary said what do you mean I just got bumped this is the new modern Steven Furtick translation of the Bible what you mean you just got bumped she said when you got here the baby in your womb made the baby in my womb leap for joy now you can't see it it's invisible but something in you the Jesus in you the Christ in you I'ma calm down in a minute and preach but somebody who's got a purpose on the inside shout like you're expecting the greatest days of your life come on on every campus let's take 19 seconds and praise him in advance it's alright it's alright it's alright to be expectant it's alright it's alright it's alright to love Jesus it's alright to be enthusiastic it's alright it's alright to lift up your eyes to the hills and know where your help comes from expectation is contagious so is skepticism sit down we gotta modulate because a lot has happened since John the Baptist was jumping up and down in Elizabeth's womb as a fetus you know what I mean like a lot happens between when something gets birthed and the point now where he's started his ministry he's like he's been doing his job you've been doing your job thats remember the titans you've been doing your job he's been doing his job and Jesus now is really really getting he's getting popular he's blowing up as some would say now this is not before the blow up Jesus is blowing all the way up all the way up and John according to the text is in prison when John first saw Jesus as an adult and whether or not they had much contact during their teenage years is not recorded in Scripture but one thing we know is that when John saw Jesus at one point when he was baptizing in the Jordan River John identified Jesus not by the activities that he did but he identified him based on the essence of who he was which is really important in how we relate to God because if we only learn to identify God by what he does and what he does for us then our expectation will be attached to his activity and that's dangerous it's very dangerous to have it's very dangerous to have a low expectation of God then you just live the life at the level of your disappointments and then wonder why everything turns out exactly the way you imagined it to turn out because you didn't have any faith for anything else it's a self-fulfilling prophecy but it's also very dangerous isn't it to have an expectation of God that is not congruent with his character and this is where it gets difficult for us because dancing babies in the womb is one thing but now when John who was in prison not in prison for a meth lab not in prison because you know not in prison for a domestic disturbance in prison for standing up to a wicked King Herod and because he wouldn't say what was expected of him to be said because he was a prophet and he didn't operate like that and he was kind of rough y'all John the Baptist was if he had a Twitter account it would definitely it would definitely need to be suspended he would definitely be de-platformed in this day in this PC day John the Baptist would not have much of an audience but he was very popular in his time until Jesus came and when Jesus came he said look Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world don't follow me follow him John 3:30 he must become greater I must become less follow him not me whole reason I'm here is to point to him here he is y'all go with him i'ma do my thing I prepared the way I'm just a voice I'm not the one I'm just a voice pointing to the one so I know my place so i'ma fall back now so he can do what he came to do and what he came to do watch this was to judge the unwickedness and to bring the people to repentance that was John's favorite message he loved that word repent repent he just preached it all the time and when they would come out to be baptized by him he would call them names he one time called the Pharisees a brood of vipers I thought that would be an interesting way to welcome the campuses one weekend and yet there was there was a prophetic power to his ministry that people were attracted to because he would say things that were true whether they wanted them to be true or not and yet that same spirit and I really want to isolate this I didn't do it last night I was thinking the same thing that made him so great got him in trouble the same thing that made him able to just take a stand and I'm not moving and this is how it's gonna be repent repent repent let me show you one example can I show you one example of what his message was so he's out baptizing at the Jordan he baptized Jesus he said I'm not worthy to untie your thong of your sandal Jesus said we got to do it to fulfill all righteousness it's proper it's appropriate stop thinking about how you think it needs to be and I'm telling you how it needs to be you're just the voice you're not the message you're just the voice again you're not the message you're just the voice one more time you're not the message you're just the voice and so he baptized Jesus in obedience even though it didn't make sense and now watch this this is something that he said that shows us what his expectation was and if you don't understand his expectation you can't make sense of his disappointment this was his expectation of the Messiah this was his expectation of the one that he gave away his ministry to this was his expectation of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and it's found in Matthew chapter 3 watch this he's talking to the crowds i baptize you with water for repentance but after me comes one who is more powerful than I whose sandals I am not worthy to carry he'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire watch this verse 12 his winnowing fork is in hand whoa that's what you use to get the chaff out the wickedness you winnow it out and you separate the sheep from the goats good from the bad the righteous from the wicked he's got his winnowing fork he's here now and it's about to go down it's about to get good the Lamb of God is here and he's got his winnowing fork in his hand and he will clear his threshing floor gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire there's about to be fire the Son of God is here it's about to be fire he's got a fork and he's about to start a fire and he's burning up all y'all that don't want to do it and get right and get left and you know all this stuff if John the Baptist had a church sign it would have all those things about hell on it you know about the fire and the wicked and the righteous and turn or burn and you know and he's got his fork in one hand now watch this he he's in prison now he's in prison now and something is making him doubt what he was so sure about from the time even before he was born what he knew before he was even born he's now doubting in this prison sends messengers a hundred miles on foot just to ask Jesus one question and I get it because you know we're supposed to be partners and here I am in prison and all I keep seeing is you healing people blessing people all I see all I keep seeing is the reports of how awesome it's going for you but I stood up to a king and I'm here in prison and here's what he's wondering did you catch it in the verse he said are you the one or should we expect someone else in other words is it always gonna be like this in other words I thought I thought I thought you were gonna have you ever thought God was gonna where'd y'all go y'all were fired up when we had a little praise moment and all that have you ever thought God was gonna have you ever wondered cuz John the Baptist is just wondering he's just wondering he's not denying Jesus he's not turning away from the sovereign Lord who bought him he's not contradicting what he said to begin with he's just thinking now maybe God isn't what I thought he was maybe the one that I trusted in maybe I trusted in the wrong one now you don't say it like that because if you said it like that you would be scared God would hit you with a lightning bolt but you just send messengers you don't say it like that directly but indirectly somebody came in here wondering and you don't talk about this you're wondering you know God made some promises and here's the the interesting thing about it a lot of times our entire faith journey is sabotaged because of our expectation of salvation when it gets started and I'm not sure that as preachers we've been very responsible about it because a lot of times we will preach that salvation from your sin is a one-time event in fact it is you will never pay the penalty of your sin Jesus is the Lamb of God this is what John knew who takes away the sin of the world but the power of sin is very different than the penalty of sin and the patterns of sin are very different than the penalty of sin so when we preach that you've been forgiven of your sin you are set free from the penalty of your sin but if the pattern of your sin has been engrained not only just throughout your lifetime but some of it is even generational and some addictions that you were fighting against you know the invisible prisons that you live in the things that you do over and over again I was thinking about how some of us are in invisible prisons today even as we try to appear free to people there is a spiritual depression on so many so many thousands that I will preach to this weekend and nobody can see it because we paint the walls with a smile but we live behind bars on the inside it's an invisible prison it's ways of thinking and reasoning and fearing because when I realize John was in two different prisons at the same time it clarified the text for me one was the one that Herod Antipas put him in for saying what he didn't want to hear but the other one was an invisible prison the other one is one that I'm all too familiar with this is the prison of your expectations this is the prison of your plans this is the prison of what you thought God was going to do you know hey go ask Jesus are you the one cuz uh I told everybody you were the one I told everybody you had your fork you're about to start a fire watch what the messengers say back to John they say Jesus replied go back and report to John what you hear and see look at this list the blind receive sight the lame walk those who have leprosy are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised and the good news is proclaimed to the poor blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me watch what wasn't in that verse the fork and the fire Jesus wasn't doing any of the things that John wanted him to do read the list again the blind receive sight the lame walk those who have leprosy are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised and the good news is proclaimed to the poor go tell John that and John's like I'm just checking Jesus where's the fork where's the fire you know WTF you ever had a moment why y'all hate me today yeah you never had a where's the fork where's the fire John is having a moment John is in a WTF moment with the Lord walk out if you want to but if you'll be really honest if you'll be really honest there are some things in your life you're trying to figure out right now come on where is it where is it what in the world is this somebody shout what is this what is this yeah yeah I don't know I just need to know because I thought you were gonna and that is the prison that we spend so much of our lives in what we thought God was gonna do but I got a question for you what if he really is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine what if he wants to do something so much better than your mind can comprehend would you be open to that what if God didn't want to meet your expectations because he wanted to exceed them and now I'm gonna make you sit back down because you're not gonna like this the way he grows my faith is usually to disappoint my expectation John's like um this this is what I gave up my ministry for this I gave my life to Jesus and I'm still struggling with depression and anxiety this because it was your expectation of deliverance that is causing your disappointment go tell John watch this the blind see the deaf hear the lame walk tell him I'm touching people that nobody else would touch that were quarantined because of this dreadful disease called leprosy and they're able to go back to their family because they're cleansed and they can live their life tell him all that but you know he's not making this up right this is what he came to do this is what he announced that he came to do in Luke chapter 4 he said the Spirit of the Lord is on me cuz he's quoting Isaiah 61 because he is fulfilling the prophecy not fulfilling their preferences fulfilling the prophecy it's very different he's fulfilling what he said he was not what they thought he was going to be that's what God is trying to deliver us from you see it from what we thought he was going to be he's so much bigger than that he's so much better than that his plan is so much bigger than that his purpose is so much greater than that John said are you the one he said go back and tell him that the deaf hear and the blind see and the lepers are touched and the eyes of the blind are opened and the ears of the deaf this is all from Luke chapter 4 look it up when he unrolled the scroll when he stood up to read in his hometown and he said this day is this prophecy fulfilled in your hearing I came the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor recovery of sight to the blind he sent me to open deaf ears he sent me to do all this but one thing he left out when he sent the message to John and this is crazy Zack because I know how much you love the Bible so it's gonna blow your mind the only thing that he left out he added some stuff to it but he left one thing out freedom for the prisoners look it up right now reference me it's in Luke 4 I can wait I know I'm right about this unless you got some weird Bible that you made for yourself Luke 4 it's like 18 19 something like that what's it say 18 19 what's it say this is Rick Parker the one that you'll always hear on the podcast hey Rick you know you're famous on the podcast he's the one always talking back to me the country guy he's always talking back to me people ask me all the time who's that country guy that's always talking back to you that's Rick Parker what's it say yeah yeah preach the gospel to the poor heal the broken heart liberty to the captives where's that he said tell John I'm doing it all tell John that everything I said I would do I'm doing it but what I said I would do is not what he was expecting and tell John that I need his faith not to rest in his idea of who he thought I was I'm a preach this home right now I need his faith not to rest in whether or not I fulfill his agenda look so many of the things that Jesus did in the scripture it was a hidden agenda in fact he even spoke in parables not so the people would get a cute little story about a father and a son and he ran away and he ate with the pigs and the father welcomed him home that isn't why he taught in parables he taught in parables because he didn't want his wisdom to be ascertained with the human mind he taught in parables so that the Spirit of God could reveal to the unlearned not the wisdom of this world but the things of God so much of what he does is hidden and yet we spend all of our time in our minds trying to figure out whether God is good trying to figure out whether life makes sense it's a prison you'll never figure it out that way you can't get out that way you can't solve your problems on the level of self it's gonna take a great big God with an eternal plan it's gonna take a really good God it's going to take a majestic God and I'm gonna have to decide whether or not I'm going to interpret him through the lens of my expectations or set my expectations on the basis of who he is now here's what I know I am preaching to so many different types of people today for some of you you can hardly breathe right now because I'm speaking so specifically to you because the Lord is trying to get this message to you for others of you you're in a much more dangerous place you're not even listening you know what God uses to develop your faith disappointment you know what the devil uses to destroy your faith disappointment and I think it's what you do with it it's gonna happen it's gonna happen in relationships it's gonna happen in careers it's gonna happen in churches to where what you thought it was gonna be and what it really is you know I don't even like the way this Bible story goes because what I want to happen next in the story is that the angel of the Lord comes and breaks John out of prison and John goes on to preach the gospel and he has more success and double for his trouble like Job like never before and the Lord restores the years that the cankerworm has wasted and we could have good church and all get a serotonin hit go home be happy and watch a NASCAR race but what I'm thinking is I need to tell you that the way you expect this story to end since we're talking about expectations is not necessarily the way that it does because John doesn't get out of prison in Matthew chapter 11 in fact in Matthew 14 his head is served up on a platter because the the king decides to cut it off him and yet there's something that's even more beautiful in the text than John getting what he wants there's something much more profound than John gets what he wants and what it is is in verse 7 and following now this transitional phrase is really important by the way who am i preaching to today that there's been some things that weren't what you thought they were going to be and it's affecting your faith now and even in a sense God is not who you thought he was going to be and you're experiencing him in a different way than you have a template for and it's challenging to you so what happens next is the part of the message that I really want you to take to heart because it says as John's disciples were leaving what does that mean whatever Jesus says next John doesn't hear it he turns to the crowd and begins to speak about John this is significant because what he says next is what he wants the crowd to know about John what he said before was what he wanted John to know about him and it's a critical distinction because God never wants your faith to rest on you he knows how fragile and fickle you are he said go tell John that there is a purpose that is greater there is a plan that is bigger say that there is a purpose that is greater there is a plan that is bigger I'm looking for a hundred percent participation on every location there is a purpose that is greater there is a plan that is bigger look at the person next you say there is a purpose that is greater there is a plan that is bigger other neighbor there is a purpose that is greater there is a plan that is bigger tell them zoom out zoom out zoom out zoom out zoom out zoom out zoom out because you've been seeing this one little thing and when you're in the prison of your mind it's an awfully small place isn't it it's really hard to see the light of day in solitary confinement but go tell John we're right on schedule go tell John I'm using his preparation go tell John it wasn't in vain I heard the Lord say Furtick go tell John go tell the people go tell the discouraged go tell the beaten go tell the broken go tell the depressed go tell the sick go tell the broke go tell the hurting go tell the young go tell the old go tell them it's working and go tell them I'm doing it just not like you wanted me to but I'm doing it he turns around and says to the crowd what did you go out into the wilderness to see a reed swayed by the wind no John wasn't fickle John wasn't fragile when John made up his mind about something that's just the way it was and that's what's getting him in trouble because he made up his mind about what he thought God was gonna do and when God did what God wanted to do is that you right now are you in an invisible prison I know Herod isn't gonna cut your head off it's not that dramatic right but you can't enjoy people can you is that you right now you can't create is that you right now or is that me who am i preaching to maybe I'm preaching to me it's not that God didn't do anything for me it's not that God didn't bless me it's just different than what I thought and as long as I'm in the prison of what I thought I can't be a part of what God is doing so be set free today be set free by the fact that God may not be conforming to your agenda or keeping all of your appointments God might not be organizing everything to match your exact preference but there is a greater purpose and there is a bigger picture and just like John was the forerunner of Jesus Christ some of you God is using you to fight battles for your children and your children's children and your children's children's children will be blessed if you don't fall away if you don't follow away if you will resist the urge to control God you can serve Him and worship Him and it'll be all right because my faith is not the expectation that circumstances will be pleasant my faith is the expectation that the voice of the Lord is upon the waters go tell John blessed is he who does not trip over the way he thought it was going to be blessed is he who accepts what I'm doing in his or her life and the Lord wants to set you free today from the way you thought that it was gonna be and that's it and that's it because you know what's gonna happen once you get set free from the way you thought it was gonna be you can embrace what it is and you know what God's gonna do more than what you thought he was gonna do the blind see the lame walk God's got something better than a fork God's got something better than a fire the first place of deliverance is in the area of your expectation Holy Spirit I thank you for this moment and I pray that this message would not fall on deaf ears because truth be told Lord there is a prison that is not physical there are captives in here today whose chains are invisible and I want to pray for them right now Lord that you would look into the places of their life where they've been disappointed and where they've been bruised or even worse than that where they got their hopes up so high and uh they made a fool of themself and so now it's kind of hard for them to really have an expectation of your goodness they're in an invisible prison of disappointment resentment bitterness but you said you came to set us free so you didn't do it physically for John but would you set us free set us free from ourselves set us free from our regrets set us free from our sin with everyone standing where the Spirit of the Lord is there's freedom and the kind of freedom that I need is the freedom from the need to control your life the freedom from the need to call the shots and to always know the plan John said are you the one I just need to know and I hear the Lord saying today yeah it's me it's me it's me getting you through this season it's me that allowed some of the things in your life that you don't like I didn't cause all of them but I'm using all of them it's me go tell John it's me it's me it's me that thing that won't let you go that's grace God said that's me that think that keeps pumping in your heart getting you back up you fall down 7 you get up 8 God said that's me that thing in you that they can't always make sense you know you should read the Bible sometimes you know God said that's me I want you to wrestle with it that's me I don't want you to put me in a formula that's me I don't want you to have me in a box I don't want you to be in this prison of your small view of me that's me oh God of every moment we come before you now in need of your mercy in need of your grace we need to know that you are our Shepherd even if we go through a valley of the shadow of death I thank you now Lord that as this word has gone forth today across multiple campuses across multiple continents that you are confirming your presence to your people right now if you would just lift your hands God said it's me it's me that you need to make sense of your life it's me lord I thank you that there is a bigger picture we do not see in full we see in part we prophesy in part we speak in part but when that which is perfect has come that which is incomplete will be taken away until that time Lord we trust in your presence we trust in who you are you're still the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world you're still the king of our life you're still the hope and foundation that our lives are built on you're still the solid rock on which we stand all other ground is sinking sand it's you God it's you that we worship and it's you that we trust it's not ourselves it's not our circumstances it's you somebody say it's you it's you that I need Lord it's you that fulfills me it's you that completes me it's you that makes ways it's you that opens doors it's you that sets the prisoners free it's you that broke the chains it's you that I'm looking to promotion doesn't come from the east or the west promotion comes from you it's you I'm counting on it's you I'm looking to it's you I'm leaning on it's your everlasting arms it's your mighty hand it's your outstretched power it's your grace that we need it's you Lord it's nobody else it's you our help comes from you our strength is in you our trust is in your name and we worship you now thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube channel but don't stop here join the eFam our online extended family and join us live every Sunday subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream and share this with a friend you can also support the ministry by clicking the give now button to help us continue to reach people around the world for Jesus Christ thank you again for watching God bless you

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Published: Mon Mar 04 2019