You Didn’t Lose It | Pastor Steven Furtick | Elevation Church

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Mark Chapter 9, Verse 14-29 I want to read this whole passage  to you. Let's look at this   proclamation God wants to make: You Didn't Lose  It. Mark 9:14: "When they came to the other   disciples, they saw a large crowd around them  and the teachers of the law arguing with them.   As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were  overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him." "What are y'all fighting about now?" Jesus asked.  I wonder if he's still asking that question.   "A man in the crowd answered, 'Teacher, I  brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit   that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it  seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth  and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples   to drive out the spirit, but they could  not.'" Listen to the phrase Jesus uses.   "'You unbelieving generation,' Jesus  replied, 'how long shall I stay with you?   How long shall I put up with you? Bring  the boy to me.' So they brought him.   When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately  threw the boy into a convulsion." So, this thing that has been controlling  this boy isn't going out without a fight.   It's not going to go out just  because you came to church one time.   It's not going to happen  just because you watched one   YouTube sermon. It's not going to happen because  you listened to worship on the way to work for   two days in a row. So, the boy falls to the  ground and rolls around and foams at the mouth. We said last week, let's not  get so caught up in the symptoms   that we miss the spirit that  was at work in this situation.   It's the Devil. It's the Evil One. He comes to  kill and steal and destroy. In this boy's case,   it was a physical manifestation, but in many  of our cases, it doesn't manifest in this way.   It manifests in different ways. We all have  different ways that we experience this. "Jesus asked the boy's father…" I think this is  an important question. "'How long has he been   like this?' 'From childhood,' he answered. 'It has  often thrown him into fire or water to kill him.   But if you can do anything, take pity on us  and help us.'" This is the part that stood out   to us last week. "'"If you can"?' said Jesus.  'Everything is possible for one who believes.'   Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, 'I  do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!' When Jesus saw that a crowd  was running to the scene,   he rebuked the impure spirit. 'You deaf and  mute spirit,' he said, 'I command you, come   out of him and never enter him again.' The spirit  shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out.   The boy looked so much like a corpse  that many said, 'He's dead.' But Jesus…" "Many said…but Jesus…" Popular opinion never  overrides God's purpose. "Many said…but Jesus…"   Do y'all love the Bible? "Many said…but Jesus…"  They don't have the last word. "But Jesus took   him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he  stood up." Now here's where we want to go today. "After Jesus had gone indoors,  his disciples asked him privately,   'Why couldn't we drive it out?' He replied,  'This kind can come out only by prayer.'"   "Why couldn't we do it?" My first instinct in  reading the text was to judge the disciples for   their lack of faith to help this boy. I even  wanted to tell them, "If you would have spent   less time arguing with the teachers of the  law, maybe you could have helped the boy." I have to be honest. I'm hard on myself,  so maybe I'm reading into the text how   I feel about myself. Holly helps me with  this. Holly has helped me in so many ways,   but one of the main things she helps me with…  I'm telling you, man. People will come up to me   all the time. It's like, "We like you a lot,  but we love Holly." I'm like, "That's how I   feel too." I only like me sometimes. I love her.  She's amazing. However amazing she looks, she's   much more amazing up close. Not everybody  is like that, but she really is like that. She has gotten better every year, and she has  taught me so much. She teaches me things… She did   a Bible study for y'all, and we're going to share  this with our eGroups. It's called Essentials.   She's going to break down the essentials. Just  getting back to basics, fundamental training…core   strength, to put it in fitness terms. We're  going to share it this fall with our eGroups. When she came home from filming it, she  said something I've never said after I   preached. "It was really good." Never once have  I put down the mic and walked off and gone, "That   was really good." Never, ever, because I'm really  hard on myself, and she helps me with this. The   best it gets for me is "I don't want to die." That  would be my version of really good. "I don't want   to quit and go get a job at Guitar Center." I'm  really hard on myself, and she helps me with that. My instinct is… And I shouldn't be confessing  all this. I always feel like I said too much   after I preach, too, which is part of the  reason I never like it after I preach it,   because I open up my gaping wounds and bleed  all over you, and then I walk back to stitch   it together myself. Holly helps me because  I'm typically thinking my best is behind me. For instance, if I preach a sermon and I feel  like, "I didn't say it like I was supposed to,"   and "I saw seven people yawn when I was  in only my first point," and "Wow! That   guy is asleep over there…" If I see all that  when I'm preaching, my instinct is to think,   "I think I've lost it." Or if I open my Bible and  I'm looking for a sermon and it's Monday and I   can't find one, that's fine. If I'm looking  for a sermon and it's Tuesday, that's fine.   Wednesday, I'm okay. Thursday, Friday, Saturday… Saturday I start repenting  of every sin I committed from   childhood, stuff I did when I was 16. I start  telling the Lord I'm sorry for everything,   just in case, because I'm  like, "Where did you go, Lord?   I think I lost it." Sometimes when I'm going to  create… Chris can tell you this. A lot of times,   if we go to write a song and we don't get a  good song that day, I'll leave and I'll be like,   "I don't know. Maybe my season of songwriting is  over." It only takes one bad day. "I lost it." Holly is really good, because she'll get in there,  and she talks tough to me. She has a whole other   gear, a whole other demeanor that's not sweet.   At the same time, she's like, "You didn't lose  it." She's really good about getting me to see   that a bad day doesn't mean  you're going backward in general. I'm a catastrophizer. If I walk  into the room and there are not   as many people as there were the week  before, I'm like, "It's over. We're   losing relevance. We're losing ground."  It's terrible. I'm not bragging about this.   I just relate to the disciples because I think  they're afraid. They go to cast out this demon,   and they can't do it, and they're like,  "Jesus! What happened? Did we lose it?" They did this before. They cast out demons before.  It isn't like they never did it before. But they   go to do it, and it doesn't work. Then Bartholomew  tries, and it doesn't work, and Andrew tries,   and it doesn't work, and then Judas  tries, and you know it didn't work.   After they're all finished trying… Now, Jesus is  up on a mountain being transfigured. The voice   of the Father is speaking over him, "This is my  Son whom I love, and I am well pleased with him." That's what happened in Mark, chapter 9, part  A. And he has with him his favorite disciples,   like you have your favorite kid. Peter, James,  and John come back down the mountain only to find   that the glory and the radiance they experienced  on the mountain is not exactly in full operation   in the valley. Isn't life just like that, to  where you have to get from the mountains of   inspiration and encouragement to get  into the valleys of these hardships? Now more than ever I'm kind of looking  at the disciples in a new light, because   I'm a middle-aged man, and I know  what it feels like to be like,   "This isn't working like it used to work." Before  I go into the gym I have to wrap up my elbow,   my wrists. I'll be wearing head  gear before I go in there soon. My son says, "Dad, you look like a robot you're  so wrapped up." Because stuff hurts. It doesn't   work like it used to work. I think for a split  second here the disciples are asking Jesus… I   want to point this out. Verse 28: "After Jesus had  gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately,   'Why couldn't we drive it out?'" They asked  Jesus privately. I wrote down a question.   How much better off would we be if we asked  Jesus some things privately instead of saying   things publicly? Instead of  blaming the teachers of the law,   they finally realize, "We have to  fix this internally, privately." Jesus said, "This kind can come out only by  prayer." So, now the disciples are asking Jesus   privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?" and  the father… I don't know if you noticed this,   but the father in verse 24 says something that  sounds like a contradiction on the surface.   The really spiritual, overspiritual, "scratch and  sniff" Christians don't like this verse because   it doesn't sound so concrete. It's a little  too abstract. It has too much tension in it. He said, "I do believe; help me overcome my  unbelief!" The father who brought his son to   Jesus who needed healing is struggling with the  same thing the disciples are struggling with:   unbelief. He immediately exclaimed, "I do  believe; help my unbelief." The message last week   was built around the idea that there is a  difference between you and your feelings. There's a difference between you and your  thoughts. There's a difference between you and   your emotions. There's a difference between you  and your successes. There's a difference between   you and your failures. You are not it. This boy  is possessed by a spirit that's making him do   all kinds of things to harm him, but he's still  the son of the father, and the father still sees   his son beneath the things he struggles with, just  like your heavenly Father still sees you separate   from the things you struggle with and how he dealt  with the sin that stood against you on the cross. He doesn't see your sin when he looks  at you. He doesn't see your successes   when he looks at you. He sees a son.  He sees a daughter. You are not it.   We are so addicted to it in our  culture that when we really want to   compliment somebody that they're good at  something we'll say, "You're a machine."   "Man! You're a machine. Wow! You're  just amazing. You're a machine." That's a downgrade. How did you take me out  of the animal kingdom and make me a machine?   How did you demote me into what I just did?  The trick is you can't let people do that to   you positively or negatively. You can't let people  identify you with your gift, because you're more   than your gift. You can't let people identify you  with your sin, because you're more than your sin.   You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.  You are made in his image and in his likeness. The father said, "This is my son," just like God  the Father said over Jesus, "This is my Son."   The father in Mark, chapter 9, says, "This is  my son, and he has problems, but he is not it."   The disciples and the father are learning a  valuable lesson that in owning your doubts,   you don't disqualify your faith. "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief."  There are a couple of miracles in this passage.   One is that the boy gets healed of his condition,  and the second is that the man asks for help.   How many women know that for a man to  ask for help is a miracle in itself?   Now not me. I ask Holly for help all the time. I particularly… This is one of the things in  our marriage. I told you she helps me a lot.   I am horrible about losing things and then  freaking out and thinking it's gone forever.   Holly is more calm. Every morning, we  start our day with me losing my AirPods.   Every morning. I know these are  some real first-world problems   I'm telling you about up here, but every  morning, this is the first thing we do. I don't seek the Lord; I look for my AirPods,  because I have sleep issues, so I always put   something really boring in my AirPods to fall  asleep to. I spend the first 10 minutes of the day   looking for the AirPods, and then  after five minutes of looking for it,   I ask Holly to help me, and she does. She  has been doing this our whole marriage,   because my first instinct is, "It's gone.  It's gone. It'll never be back again." Whether it's sunglasses, AirPods, my anointing…   I told you my first instinct is "It's gone." "I  don't feel God's presence right now. I guess it's   gone." "I've been looking for my AirPods for  30 seconds. They're not here. They're gone."   She says, "Do you think they got up and walked  away? You put them in your ear seven hours ago.   They are here somewhere." This is what she  taught me: "You don't know how to look." She said, "You don't know how to look." I said,  "I looked." She said, "You looked with your eyes.   To really look you can't just use your eyes."   This was several years ago. She said,  "I'm going to teach you how to look."   She started picking stuff up. She said, "See  what I'm doing? I'm lifting while I'm looking.   See? I'm looking underneath  stuff. I'm moving the pillow.   I'm peeling back the covers." God said  some of y'all look, but you don't lift.   You don't know how to look. So, in the past  six months you've said stuff like this:   "I've lost my faith." You didn't lose  it. You just don't know how to look. When I talk to people, I notice the way  we phrase things. We say, "I lost my joy.   I lost my peace." How many of  y'all have said in the last   30 days, "I feel like I'm losing my mind"?   How many of y'all didn't even get that specific?  Just "I feel like I'm losing it." You didn't lose   it. You just have to learn how to look. Sometimes  looking means lifting stuff, looking under stuff. Not just walking in… "It's gone!" "Well,  I woke up in a good mood, but y'all just…   The Devil just stole my joy." I guess he did.  You left it lying right out for him to take.   You didn't lock the door, roll up  the window… I'm preaching to me.   I'll say I lost it, but I haven't really even  looked. The man said, "I do believe. That's why   I brought my boy to you. I still have faith,  but will you help me with my unbelief?" What   I want to teach you today is there's a difference  between having unbelief and being an unbeliever.   He did not say, "I'm an unbeliever."  He said, "I have unbelief." When you have doubts about anything  in your life, what God spoke to you or   even who God is… Sometimes many of us doubt  the existence of God. That doesn't make you an   unbeliever. There's a difference between having  unbelief… "Immediately he exclaimed…" Did you   see that word? Immediately he exclaimed,  "I do believe, but help my unbelief." We understand that although his explanation was  immediate his unbelief probably came over time.   His boy has been in this  condition since childhood,   and perhaps at the first sign or symptom that his  boy had something wrong with him he believed, but   life has a way of layering unbelief. Beneath the  layers of unbelief is still a you who trusts God. We try to bring you into church sometimes and  remove all of the doubts from the equation.   We do that sometimes through preaching clichés  or by making vague promises that "You're going   to make it to the other side," and things like  that. I preach those things too, and sometimes   they have value, but sometimes I think we think  God is going to decrease our doubts. The father   in this passage prayed Jesus would increase  his faith. "Help me overcome my unbelief." He has shifted now. When he  first started talking to Jesus…   "Your disciples couldn't do it."  The first instinct was to blame,   but now he's understanding that "It's not going  to get me anywhere to blame Jesus' staff. If   I want my boy healed, I'm going to have to get  beneath all of the surface reasons it didn't work,   and I'm going to have to own this  for myself. Help my unbelief." Would you have the guts to pray that out loud?  "Help my unbelief." Now, we pray, "Help my bank   account." We pray, "Help my husband act right." We  pray all kinds of things, but when you say, "Help   my unbelief," power happens. That's the  connection right there. "Help my unbelief."   There are some things we need to unbelieve  before we can believe what we need to believe. Unbelief creeps in. It doesn't come  in all at once. You don't wake up one   day and talk about "I just don't believe anymore."  As years go by, as disappointments accumulate…   Here's one way of saying it: faith  doesn't disappear; it deteriorates.   It wears away. I wrote a book in 2010 in  my journey of faith called Sun Stand Still. It was a good book. It was about believing God  for the impossible. I watched my dad die of ALS   a couple of years later. I had to go back  and revisit "Do I still believe God can   do the impossible?" My friend Levi Lusko prayed  "Sun stand still" over his 5-year-old daughter,   and she died in his arms of an asthma  attack as he tried to resuscitate her. I have to go back in my life now and separate  out the events that happened that caused me   to doubt from the faith that I have to realize  that sometimes we didn't really lose our faith,   we misplaced it. It didn't get up and  walk away. You didn't lose your faith;   you misplaced it. In the father's case, he  said, "Your disciples couldn't drive it out.   Your disciples couldn't do it." The disciples weren't the ones you  needed to believe in to begin with.   Many of us lost our faith in Jesus  because we put our trust in people.   So, we lose our faith in God because somebody else  let us down? Because the disciples couldn't do it,   you're going to walk away from what God has for  you? "I don't go to church anymore. I got burned."   Have you ever had a bad meal? Do you still eat?   "Help my unbelief. I've watched my son like this  so long…" When it has been so long like this,   it just adds up over time to where his  first instinct is, "I do believe, but   will you help me overcome  the part of me that doesn't?" I'll never forget when I was in Orangeburg, South  Carolina, preaching on a Friday night. I preached   this sermon back in the day on Jonathan from 1  Samuel 14, an Old Testament character. He was the   son of Saul the king. I preached 1 Samuel  14:6 so many times. I used to talk about how   Jonathan said, "Perhaps the Lord will act on our  behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving." I talked about how that sounds kind of  like he hasn't quite made up his mind.   "Nothing can hinder the Lord. Perhaps God  will act." I called it the perhaps paradox.   Now, this was a small church, and I was…I  don't know…19 years old. This guy drove me   back to the host home where we were staying.  The guy's name was Rodney who was driving me.   On the way home… You know, I'm insecure, so I  said, "How did you like the sermon, Rodney?" I shouldn't have asked that.   He said, "I don't know if I'd call that a sermon  what you did up there." I'm not making this up.   He said, "There's no perhaps about it. If God  said he'll do it, he'll do it. That stuff you're   preaching up there isn't faith; it's doubt."  I said, "But I got it from the Bible, Rodney.   I read the Bible. That's what Jonathan said in  the Bible. I was preaching the Bible verse." He said, "No, no, no. If God said he'll do  it, he'll do it, and there's no if about it."   Hold on. "'If you can do anything, take pity  on us and help us.' 'If you can? Everything   is possible for one who believes.'" And  Jesus did it even though the man said if.   So, I started arguing with Rodney. I said,  "Rodney, there are a lot of people in the Bible…" (I'm putting a substitute name in there. His  real name wasn't Rodney. I still remember what   it was. I'm not going to say it. I don't want  to get sued or canceled.) The man said, "Well,   real faith in the Bible…" I said, "Moses  had doubts. He said God couldn't use him.   God got so mad at Moses the Bible said his  anger burned against him, but he still used   him even though he had to get Aaron to speak  for him. You have more faith than Moses?" I said, "Abraham lied about his wife." I  went through a whole list of people who   doubted but God still used them. I said, "You  have more faith than all of them?" He said,   "Well, I guess when it comes to that  I do." By the time we got to where he   was dropping me off in the driveway, we  were about to fistfight in the driveway. The man whose home it was came running out of the  house. He said, "What in the world is going on?"   He kind of broke us up, and he took  us into the house, and Rodney left and   spun out of the driveway in the pickup  truck. I sat down in the house, and I said,   "We were arguing about… He said if you  have any doubt, you don't have real faith." This is what the man said to me. He  said, "If you teach that and preach that,   you're going to be broke, poor, and sick all  your life, and so will all of the people you   lead and your future children, if  you have any." I'm like, "Hey, man.   Leave my hypothetical future children out of  this. You can make fun of me if you want." But he really thought that. He really thought the  proof of faith is the absence of doubt. He had   no room in his view of who God is for an if.   But Jesus did what the man needed even though the  man wasn't perfectly convinced he could do it,   because the man invited Jesus into the place where  he had the greatest doubt and the greatest pain.   Now I think this might be my favorite prayer  in the Bible, because I can get with this. I can get with this when I'm in a bad mood.  I can get with this when I'm in a good mood.   I can get with this when I'm riding high.  I can get with this when the news is bad.   I can get with this any day of the week. "I  do believe. Help me overcome my unbelief."   I'm not asking God to just take it away.  I'm asking God "Help me overcome it."   My faith is not gone. I just  have to learn where to look. Sometimes the greatest faith…I  need you to get this…is   right underneath that biggest doubt. Sometimes  the greatest thing God wants to show you,   if you will start lifting and looking and lifting  and looking… Do you see what I'm saying? We can't   just cover over it. We can't just come to church  for a fresh coat of paint over our problems.   We can't just come to church for a  three-hour scriptural sugar boost   to get us feeling good for a moment. It won't  work, and we'll end up like the disciples,   saying, "Why did I shout and sing  and listen and take notes in church?" Because you didn't invite Jesus  into the real place of your pain.   You didn't lose your faith; you just stopped  looking at the surface. "It's gone. It's gone."   One boy broke up with you. "I guess I'll never  be loved." You're 14 years old! "I guess it's   gone. I guess you can't trust anybody." See how  we do it? "It's gone." You have to know where to   look. Can I preach something else? Sometimes you  are so intimidated by it you forget about him. "When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to  the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit." He   didn't argue with the disciples. He didn't  argue with the teachers. He didn't have to.   He was bigger than it. So, the disciples said,  "Why couldn't we drive it out?" He said, "Because   you lost your focus. This kind  can only come out through prayer." When we think about prayer, we think about  maybe a list of things we say to God,   but God is showing me lately that  prayer is more about a lens than a list,   and it's more about what I see than what I  say. So, if my prayer is always just "Let   me just say my prayers…" When Jesus said,  "This kind can only come out by prayer…"   The King James says "…and fasting," but the  original manuscripts don't say "by fasting." Even the fact that he said, "This kind can  only come out by prayer…" He's letting you know   you can't do it alone. I looked on my message  last week, and somebody said on a comment… I   don't usually read the comments. Pray for me.  I read them more than I should. They said,   "You left out fasting. It said 'By prayer and  fasting.' They didn't get the demon out because   they didn't fast." Isn't that just like us  to think if we'll just do one more thing,   if we'll just do one more step… It was their inability to rely on God's power  in them that got them in the predicament to   begin with. He said, "It's only by prayer." It's  intimidating. How dare we judge the disciples that   they couldn't cast out a demon? That's like all  of the out of shape people watching these Olympic   athletes, talking about "That was pretty  good. I mean, second place. It was all right." I want to judge the disciples. "Why couldn't you  drive out the demon? You should have confessed   the name of Jesus and prayed and fasted." I  can't even get my kids to clean their room,   y'all, and I'm going to judge the disciples  for not casting out a demon? This is a demon   that has been with this boy since childhood. How  dare we judge them for that? It was intimidating. He said, "This kind can only come out by prayer."   This isn't going to be like one of your other  problems you can fix in your own strength.   I wonder, have you been losing it because  you've been fighting on the wrong level?   One of my friends went into a business situation  a few weeks ago, and he said when he pulled up to   the person's house for the meeting, the house was  so big and so beautiful he lost his confidence. He said, "I went in there, and I thought,  'I can't do this. I can't do this.'" When   he went in to meet with the people… After  he left, they sent him a text and said,   "You are amazing. We have not stopped talking  about your spirit." He's a great Christian.   This guy changes the atmosphere of every  room he walks into. He said, "Afterward,   they were texting me how amazing the meeting  was and how they were so impressed with me." He said, "I couldn't believe it, because I  went in so scared." And do you know what I   told him? I said, "Yeah, because you got so caught   up in what you were walking into you  forgot what you were walking in with."   Who is this for? You were so focused  on what you were walking into,   but God says if you will get a focus  on what you are walking in with… Not just your abilities, not just your  education, not just your knowledge,   not just your wisdom. At some point,  that will fail you, but if you remember   you are walking in with the Spirit of God…  This is a guarantee of your inheritance.   This is not corruptible. It cannot  perish. It cannot spoil. It cannot fade.   Whatever it I'm walking into, I'm walking  in with something that is greater. Greater is he that is in me  than he that is in the world.   When Jesus confronted it, it had to back  down, because greater is he that is in me   than he that is in the world! I've got it,  Devil! I have the Spirit of God. I have the   calling of God. I have the purpose of God.  I have the Word of God. I have the assurance   of God. I have the anointing of God. I have a  sling and a stone and a promise and a Savior. And I still have faith. After all I've  been through and all it cost me and all   they took… It robbed my speech, but it didn't  take my faith. I do believe! I still believe!   So, let me give you a Scripture.   Lift before you look. Stop looking at stuff on the  surface and saying, "Oh, there's nothing there."   Lift before you look. This is what Holly taught  me. "It's not gone; you just haven't looked yet."   You haven't looked, so you haven't seen  the opportunity that's in this hardship.   You haven't seen the blessing that's in this  rejection yet because you haven't looked. "I will lift my eyes to the hills." What did  the psalmist do? He said, "I have to lift   before I look." They looked at the boy,  and he looked dead, but Jesus reached down   and lifted him up. Why? Lift before you look.  Before you look at your schedule for the day,   lift your eyes to the hills. You're going to  need help today, and you have it on the inside. Don't look so much at what you're walking into  that you forget what you're walking in with. "Oh,   no! I'm a nobody with a somebody on the inside  of me. I have to decrease so he can increase.   I lift my eyes to the hills." I might be preaching  for three people, but you haven't really looked   yet. You've been saying, "There's nothing special  about me. I don't really have a gift. I'm not   anointed like those other people. I'm not called.  I don't really see any benefit in this situation." You haven't really looked until you've  lifted. When you lift your eyes to the hills…   The turning point for the father is  when he stopped looking at the crowd,   stopped looking at the disciples, stopped  looking at the symptoms, and finally saw Jesus.   I see Jesus coming toward your  unbelief, coming toward your struggle,   coming toward your issue. Will you lift your eyes?  Lift before you look. He said, "I lift my eyes   to the hills, from whence cometh my help."  It's not going to come from the disciples.   It's not going to come from my own flesh.  It's not going to come from my own solutions. "My help comes from the Lord, the maker of  heaven and earth. He will not suffer your   foot to be moved. The Lord keepeth thee. He will  not slumber nor sleep. For the Lord is thy keeper.   The Lord is thy shade upon thy right  hand. The sun shall not smite you by day,   nor the moon by night. He that keepeth Israel  shall preserve your soul, even forevermore."   Will you lift your eyes for a moment?   You've been looking in the wrong  places for your joy, for your peace.   You didn't lose it. You just  need somebody to help you look. That's what the Spirit of God does. He  searches all things. He helps you look   in the places where you haven't looked yet.  God has put his help on the inside of you,   and I just want to help you look  for a moment. Stand to your feet.   One time, Paul prayed that the  eyes of your heart might be opened.   Prayer isn't just about saying things to God.  It's about seeing things as God sees them.   I do believe. Would you say that? "I do believe.   Life has layered me with unbelief, but I'm not an  unbeliever. I do believe. That's why I came today. I still believe. Sometimes my faith feels  very weak and my joy feels very low,   but I receive this prophetic  word today. I didn't lose it.   I just need Jesus to help me look for it."   I want you to pray. Like I ask Holly, I want  you to ask God. Say, "Help me look, Lord,   because when I see things with my own eyes, I  misjudge them. I see them from a human appearance.   Show me what's really going on with my children.  Show me what's really driving that behavior.   Show me what's really beneath  the fear I feel. Show me   what's lurking beneath that.  Help me overcome my unbelief."
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Length: 41min 22sec (2482 seconds)
Published: Sun Aug 01 2021
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